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Without learning, men grow as cows do increasing only in flash not
wisdom. |
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With the intelligent, the wise, the learned, the devout, the dutiful
and the Ariya -- with such a virtuous, intellectual man should one
associate. |
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Be fond of sleep, fond of company, indolent, lazy and irritable --
this is a cause of one's downfall. |
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Who strives not when he should strive, who, though young and strong,
is given to idleness, who is loose in his purpose and thoughts, and
who is lazy -- that idler never finds the way to wisdom. |
