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A woodcutter busily cutting wood in a rusty [axe
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Teaches traveler, “You can cut more easily if you remove the rust from the axe.”
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The woodcutter replies, “I’m too busy cutting down trees to do that.
- [Seven Habits
- Seventh habit: “sharpen a blade”
- p.432
- Not an axe saw.
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While you’re sharpening your axe blade and feeling good that you’re sharpening your blade, chainsaw may be being introduced on the next mountain!
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The winner is the one who cuts down the most trees in three days. You can do anything you want, but the first thing you will be provided with is a rusty axe and a whetstone.
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Fools continue to cut with a rusty axe because they don’t have time to sharpen it. A somewhat sane man will sharpen it properly every day. The smart ones work part-time or go to the bank to buy a chainsaw until the second day.
- https://twitter.com/metatetsu/status/1081861461440266240?s=21
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Some people claim that Aesop’s Fables are the source, but I have not been able to find one that clearly states which story it is.
- I checked the list to see what might be related to Kikori, but it was a different story.
- https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ペリー/index
- Perry 22 The Fox and the Woodman - Wikipedia
- A story about a fox asking a woodcutter to hide him, and the woodcutter telling the hunter that he has not seen the fox and pointing to where he is hiding.
- The Fox and the Woodcutter
- Perry 173. Hermes and the Woodcutter
- Golden axe - Wikipedia
- The Honest Woodcutter - Wikipedia
- The story of being the goddess of the fountain in Japan.
- Perry 302 The Woodcutter and the Trees - Wikipedia
- The axe shaft is made of wood, a story about being betrayed and destroyed by someone you trusted because you thought they were your relatives.
- The Oak and the Woodcutters This makes it a wedge.
- I checked the list to see what might be related to Kikori, but it was a different story.
relevance
https://www.clairenewton.co.za/my-articles/the-wood-cutter-stories.html
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