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Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion themselves.
— Dhammapada, verse 80 – tr. F. Max Müller (1881)
Dhammapada, verse 80 – tr. F. Max Müller (1881)

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