Loqman, being asked from whom he had learnt civility, replied: -From those who had no civility because what appeared to me unbecoming in them I refrained from doing.-
Not a word is said even in sport
Without an intelligent man taking advice thereby.
But if a hundred chapters of wisdom are read to a fool
All strike his ear merely as sport.
Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 21
Saadi Shirazi
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