“"Mulla, Mulla, my son has written from the Abode of Learning to say that he has completely finished his studies!"
"Console yourself, madam, with the thought that God will no doubt send him more."”

—  Nasreddin

Idries Shah, The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin (1973), , p. 134

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