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Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 12

One year discord had arisen in a caravan among the walking portion and I also travelled on foot. To obtain justice we attacked each other’s heads and faces, giving full vent to pugnacity and contention. I saw a man sitting in a camel litter and saying to his companion: ‘How wonderful! A pawn of ivory travels across the chess-board and becomes a farzin, and the footmen of the Haj travelled across the whole desert only to become worse. ’ Tell on my part to the man-biting Haji Who tears the skins of people with torments: Thou art not a Haji but a camel is one Because, poor brute, it feeds on thorns and bears loads. THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)