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"Was hast du gelernt? Wieviel Künste verstehst du?"
"Ich verstehe nur eine einzige," antwortete bescheidentlich die Katze.
"Was ist das für eine Kunst?" fragte der Fuchs.
"Wenn die Hunde hinter mir her sind, so kann ich auf einen Baum springen und mich retten."
"Ist das alles?" sagte der Fuchs, "Ich bin Herr über Hundert Künste und habe überdies noch einen Sack voll Liste".
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Translation: "What have you ever learned? What arts have you mastered?" "Only one", said the cat modestly. "And what is that, pray?" asked the fox. "When dogs are after me, I can save myself by climbing a tree". "Is that all?" said the fox. "I am the master of a hundred arts, and furthermore I have a whole bag of tricks".
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"Der Fuchs und die Katze" ("The Fox and the Cat"), pp. 267-8.
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Cf. Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing".

 

Wilhelm Karl Grimm (of the Brothers Grimm)

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