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Variant translation of Plurima mortis imago : "Death in a thousand shapes."
— Thus Fortune on our first endeavour smil'd.The gods thought otherwise.
— Line 385 (translated by John Dryden).
Variant translations: The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one great thing. The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one. The fox knows many tricks; and the hedgehog only one; but that is the best one of all.
— Transliterated by Donald Day, ed., Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh or, Josh Billings on practically everything (1953), p. 120.
Variant translation: Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, And he shows them pearly white Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear And he keeps it out of sight.
bertolt brecht— Marc Blitzstein translation; largely used for Louis Armstrong's and Bobby Darin's pop renditions of "The Ballad of Mack the Knife"
