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Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 24

I complained to one of the sheikhs that a certain man had falsely accused me of lasciviousness. He replied: "Put him to shame by thy good conduct. " Be thou well behaved that a maligner May not find occasion to speak of thy faults. When the harp is in proper tune How can the hand of the musician correct it? THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)