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Richard Francis Burton: As threshing separates...

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Richard Francis Burton, (Mar 19 1821-1890), English scholar, explorer; He was the first European to discover Lake Tanganyika and to penetrate hitherto-forbidden Muslim cities; published 43 volumes on his explorations.


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