10 Nov On the Advantages of Silence – SAADI
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in Persian Poetry
“I have heard one of the sages say: “No one confesseth his own ignorance so much as the man who beginneth to talk whilst another is speaking, and hath not yet finished.””
The Gulistan by Saadi- Chapter 4
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Robinson, S., 2019. Persian Poetry for English Readers, Alpha Editions, (p. 270).