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If I cut off your head and attach it to my feet, I would be taller. But that is something that cannot be done.

Umm… OK… thanks.

When departing for the front, one should wear underwear made from the skin of a Badger. This will prevent lice.

To ask when you know is politeness. To ask when you don’t know is the rule.

“Tether even a roasted chicken.”

Some of his advice is quite strange.

Always hang wind bells 🔔 so you will know the direction of the wind.

Good advice. And no need to drink horse feces. 🤢

OK… there is a SECOND reference to drinking horse feces mixed with water to heal a wound received from a horse. WTH?! 🤦‍♂️

Is he playing a prank? Just having a laugh to see who will take this advice???

“Death is the only sincerity.”

“Of people who regard water lightly, many have been drown.”

“When faced with a crisis, if one puts some spittle on his earlobe and exhales deeply through his nose he will overcome anything at hand.” Umm… what?! 😳