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Tuesday, December 08, 2015
A Donkey Carrying Books
Koran 62.5 (tr. Arthur J. Arberry):
The likeness of those who have been loaded with the Torah then they have not carried it, is as the likeness of an ass carrying books.
J.-J. Grandville, (1803-1847), Les savants envoyèrent un académicien armé de ses ouvrages
