Gulistan of Saadi
The Morals of Dervishes
Story 21
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 a sport.
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