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Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

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Saadi
Poet
Writer
Shiraz city
Saadi Shirazi
Doubtless
Expose
Neighbour
Defects
Whoever
Faults
Others
Recounts

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