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On the Effects of Education

year discord had arisen in a caravan among the walking portion, and I also travelled on foot. To obtain justice we attacked each other's heads and faces, giving full vent to pugnacity and contention. I saw a man sitting in a camel-litter and saying to his companion: "How wonderful! A pawn of ivory travels across the chess-board and becomes a Farzin, namely he becomes better than he was, and the footmen of the Haj travelled across the whole desert only to become worse."

Indian who was learning how to throw naphtha was thus reproved by a sage: "This is not a play for thee, whose house is made of reeds."

Speak not unless thou knowest it is perfectly proper, and ask not what thou knowest will not elicit a good reply.