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Dost thou not see that wealth in itself confers no honour on him who amasses it, which shall last when he is dead, as does knowledge ?- knowledge which shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator, since knowledge is the daughter of its creator, and not the stepdaughter, like wealth.

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Bountiful nature has provided that in all parts of the world you will find something to imitate.

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Consider in the streets at nightfall the faces of men and women when it is bad weather, what grace and sweetness they manifest!

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Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

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Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

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Truth was the only daughter of time.

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