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Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 37

Musk is known by its perfume and not by what the druggist says. A scholar is silent like the perfumer’s casket but displays accomplishments, whilst an ignoramus is loud-voiced and intrinsically empty like a war-drum. A learned man among blockheads (So says the parable of our friends) Is like a sweetheart among the blind Or a Qaroon (Korah) among unbelievers. THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)