Saadi: Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayst manage to guide an elephant with a hair.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayst manage to guide an — Saadi

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayst manage to guide an elephant with a hair.

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