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Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom seeFor bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

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Saadi
Poet
Writer
Shiraz city
Saadi Shirazi
Mind
Belly
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Bodies
Would
Souls
Empty
Wisdom
Crammed
Keep
Bursting
Body
Lightly
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