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What avails your wealth, if it makes you arrogant to the poor?Tradizione araba · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 267
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Tradizione araba · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 267
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- W. A. Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings (1893) · Detto n. 267 · attribuzione riportata: Arabic
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