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Story LXXXIX

supplicant said in Aleppo, in the row of linen-drapers: "Lords of wealth! If you were just and we contented, the trade of begging would vanish from the world."

O contentment! Make me rich, For besides thee no other wealth exists. Loqmân selected the corner of patience; Who has no patience, has no wisdom.