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That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; The proverb is a favourite of the British politician Ken Livingstone who used it on the occasion of his failure to rejoin the Labour Party in 2002. [ 8 ]
Proverbs 26 is the 26th chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of several wisdom literature collections, with the heading in 1:1 may be intended to regard Solomon as the traditional author of the whole book, but the dates of the individual collections are difficult to determine, and the book probably ...
They did this because of its contradictions (the result of the book's origins as not just an anthology but an anthology of anthologies). The reader is told, for example, both to "not answer a fool according to his folly," according to 26:4, and to "answer a fool according to his folly", as 26:5 advises.
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As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly; I. Instruction of Amenemope; Ithiel; L. Lemuel (biblical king) M. Midrash Proverbs; W. Wisdom ...
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As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly; B. Barking up the wrong tree; C. Chien de Jean de Nivelle; D. The Dog and the Wolf; The dog ate my homework;
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