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Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 27

A thief said to a mendicant: ‘Art thou not ashamed to stretch out thy hand for a grain of silver to every sordid fellow? ’ He replied: ‘To hold out the hand for a grain of silver Is better than to get it cut off for one dane and a half. ’ THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)