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Excerpt from Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient
If, as the Orientals say, of all poverty the poverty of the mind is the most deplorable, then it must be a fitting service to seek to reduce that, and increase to the utmost the wealth of possession. If, as Charles V. Is credited with saying, one becomes a new man as often as he acquires a new lan guage, it is also true that any one of us is made new, under goes afresh enlargement and strengthening in the opening of a new source of nourishment and inspiration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.