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As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly

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In Proverbs, the "fool" represents a person lacking moral behavior or discipline, and the "wise" represents someone who behaves carefully and righteously. The modern association of these words with intellectual capacity is not in the original context.
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Endeavour: "Well I've many faults, God knows, but I try to draw the line at masochism. Besides, traditionally it's the killer that returns to the scene of the crime, not the... whatever I was."
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of the dead and they appear in the Bible as repugnant creatures, symbolising evil. The reference to vomit indicates excessive indulgence and so also symbolises revulsion.
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Tova Forti (June 2007), "Conceptual Stratification in LXX Prov 26,11: Toward Identifying the Tradents Behind the Aphorism",
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Leland Ryken; Jim Wilhoit; James C. Wilhoit; Tremper Longman; Colin Duriez; Douglas Penney; Daniel G. Reid (1998),
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In 1990, Paul Keating famously accused Wilson Tuckey of being "a dog returning to its own vomit" ...
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Notes, explanatory and practical, on the general epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude
96:, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them." 501: 419: 54: 177: 121: 58: 361: 275: 245: 36: 109: 411: 469:
Piers Akerman (Sep 26, 2006), "The half wit, wisdom of a failed intellect",
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And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
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That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
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again, even though this may be poisonous. Dogs were considered
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There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
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The incorrigible nature of fools is further emphasised in
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As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly
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who used it on the occasion of his failure to rejoin the
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As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
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Sophia Menache (1997), "Dogs: God's Worst Enemies?",
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The proverb is a favourite of the British politician
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as one of several classic examples of repeated folly:
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Index

aphorism
Book of Proverbs
Bible
Proverbs 26
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Hebrew
New Testament
2 Peter 2:22
inflexible
simile
dog
vomit
unclean
scavengers
Proverbs 27:22
mortar
Septuagint
shame
guilt
ungodly
Second Epistle of Peter
2 Peter 2:22
Kipling
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
Ken Livingstone
Labour Party
Parliament of Australia
Paul Keating
Endeavour
Inspector Morse

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