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  2. The Farmer and his Sons - Wikipedia

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    The Farmer and his Sons is a story of Greek origin that is included among Aesop's Fables and is listed as 42 in the Perry Index. [1] It illustrates both the value of hard work and the need to temper parental advice with practicality.

  3. The Old Man and his Sons - Wikipedia

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    In more modern times, Pieter de la Court commented on its applicability to the Dutch Republic in his retelling of the story in Sinryke Fabulen (Amsterdam, 1685) as "A farmer and his seven quarrelsome sons". [7] The story is prefaced with the proverb Eendragt maakt magt, een twist verkwist (Unity makes strength, strife wastes). The first part of ...

  4. The old man lost his horse - Wikipedia

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    Starting from the original parable, different versions of the story have been written, which are described in books and on the internet under titles such as The Taoist Farmer, The Farmer and his Horse, The Father, His Son and the Horse, The Old Man Loses a Horse, etc. The story is mostly cited in philosophical or religious texts and management ...

  5. The miller, his son and the donkey - Wikipedia

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    The miller, his son and the donkey is a widely dispersed fable, number 721 in the Perry Index and number 1215 in the Aarne–Thompson classification systems of folklore narratives. Though it may have ancient analogues, the earliest extant version is in the work of the 13th-century Arab writer Ibn Said .

  6. La Fontaine's Fables - Wikipedia

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    The Farmer and his Sons, (Le laboureur et ses enfants, V.9) The Farmer and the Viper (Le villageois et le serpent, VI.13) The fish and the flute-playing shepherd (Les poissons et le berger qui joue de la flûte, X.11) The fisherman and the little fish (Le petit poisson et le pêcheur, V.3) The Fly and the Ant (La mouche et la fourmi, IV.3)

  7. The Story of The Farmer's Three Daughters (Icelandic fairy ...

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    The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children". [6] [7]The tale has been compared to the German tale The Three Little Birds, [8] collected by the Brothers Grimm, and The Sisters Envious of Their Cadette, published by Antoine Galland in The One Thousand and One Nights.

  8. ‘X’ Review: ’70s Horror Meets ’70s Porn in the Rare ‘Chain ...

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    They have come to this place to shoot a porn film called “The Farmer’s Daughters.” By 1979, most porn was being shot in New York or L.A., but these amateurs don’t feel fake.

  9. Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke

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    Farmer is then telling the "real story". Farmer examines the psychological make up of John Clayton (Tarzan's real name in the novels) and his peers, based on close readings of the various Burroughs books, accepting some of Burroughs' concepts and rejecting others in an attempt at greater verisimilitude.