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The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Saadi as translated in The Gulist?n : Or, Rose-garden, of Shek?h? Muslihu'd-d?n S?d? of Sh?r?z as translated by Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1880), p. 203.

 

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