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• The marrying maiden as a concubine. A lame man who is able to tread.
  Undertakings bring good fortune....
• Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
• Remorse disappears. Take not gain and loss to heart.
  Undertakings bring good fortune. Everything serves to further....
• The marrying maiden as a slave. She marries as a concubine.
• Turning away from nourishment. Perseverance brings misfortune.
  Do not act thus for ten years. Nothing serves to further....
• The marrying maiden draws out the allotted time. A late marriage comes in due course.
• Thunder over the lake: The image of The Marrying Maiden.
  Thus the superior man Understands the transitory In the light of the eternity of the end....
• When ribbon grass is pulled up, the sod comes with it.
  Each according to his kind. Undertakings bring good fortune....
• Come to think of it, the guy that sold me this thing did say the wishes would bring grave misfortune.
  I thought he was just being colorful. -- Homer, `The Monkey's Paw' in "Treehouse of Horror II...