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Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.
Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.
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- Unresolved attribution · printed label: Bhartrihari
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- Book of Wise Sayings (1893) (1893 AD)
Saying 93 · printed source label: Bhartrihari · entry translator not specified
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