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The stories in the Fairy Books have generally been such as old women in country places tell to their grandchildren.
“Whoso meddles in affairs that are no business of his, will hear truths that will not please him.”
The Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid sat in his palace, wondering if there was anything left in the world that could possibly give him a few hours’ amusement, when Giafar the grand-vizir, his old and tired friend, suddenly appeared before him. Bowing low, he waited, as was his duty, till his master spoke, but Haroun-al-Raschid merely turned his head and looked at him, and sank back into his former weary posture.
The blindness of your heart has wrought the blindness of your body.
