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Dhammapada · Chapter 5: The Fool

Dhammapada 5.71

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

An evil deed, like newly-drawn milk, does not turn (suddenly); smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, it follows the fool.

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