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 396. Knowledge is like unto a sand-spring: the more thou diggest and drawest thereat, the more excellent is the flow thereof.

397. Everywhere is his home to the learned man, and everywhere his native land : why then doth a man neglect instruction up to his dying day?

398. The learning that a man hath acquired in one birth will exalt him; even in all his succeeding incarnations.

399. The learned man seeth that the learning that delighteth him delighteth also all that listen to him: and he loveth instruction all the more on that account.

400. An imperishable and flawless treasure is learning to a man : other wealth is as nothing before it.

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