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Dhammapada · Chapter 1: The Twin-Verses

Dhammapada 1.19

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

The thoughtless man, even if he can recite a large portion (of the law), but is not a doer of it, has no share in the priesthood, but is like a cowherd counting the cows of others.

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