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Not Humiliated Ah! My fate! Whenever did I plead with you not to make me penurious? I reiterate even now: ‘Render me penurious, utterly penurious, if so you must.' What I have to plead for is only this: ‘Let me not be so humiliated that I lose my spiritual probity!
Beware! Do not tread the path, O wayfarer! presuming that the way will be easy and comfortable. The traveller who treads so presuming, will have to halt when confronted with heat and thorns. Assuming, therefore, that the way may be beleaguered by both, if you pace ahead with fortitude, you will encounter peace and rest, joy and repose !
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