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. Nay, my young friend, I think you are making a slight mistake. Don’t you remember what the proverb says: “If you are constant, you will penetrate a rock”? What he knows he knows only because he has learnt it; it has not come to him by intuition. And are we in any way otherwise constituted? not at all!


 * age
 * elder brother, sir


 * sini
 * thy


 * ere
 * this


 * gisun
 * word, speech


 * majige
 * little


 * tašarabuhakū
 * Pret. (4) of tašarabumbi to cause an error, with akū not


 * semeo
 * Inf. or Ger. (3) of sembi to say, to think, with interrogative o


 * danjicidonjici [sic]
 * Cond. (6) of donjimbi to hear


 * hing
 * with sembi to be careful, constant


 * sere
 * Fut. (5) of sembi to say


 * oci
 * Cond. (6) of ombi to be: if


 * hada
 * rock


 * de
 * in


 * hafumbi
 * to penetrate


 * sehebi
 * Indef. Past (10) of sembi to say


 * tere
 * he


 * inu
 * yes, also


 * tacifi
 * Past Ger. (8) of tacimbi to learn


 * bahanahangge
 * Verbal Noun (21) of bahanambi to comprehend


 * dabala
 * only


 * umai
 * not at all


 * banjinjigi
 * Past Ger. (8) of banjinjimbi to come into life


 * bahanahangge
 * Verbal Noun (21) bahanambi to comprehend


 * waka
 * not


 * kai
 * is, final particle


 * muse
 * we (two)


 * tede
 * dat. of tere he: to him


 * isirakūngge
 * Verbal Noun (21) of isimbi to arrive, with akū not


 * ya
 * whatsoever


 * ba
 * place