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two branches of learning must be deemed necessary by him 
so far as to enable him to be correct in his everyday conversa- 
tion and modes of writing and speaking Arabic and Persian 
words. In society he should try to guard against the shame of 
committing any mistake in conversation, for such incorrectness 
. . . - - . 
in speech is considered a great fault ina Mirza. The thi 
at the age of thirty (2). The fourth is, that he should possess 
a knowledge of men (and the world), because it is the best of 
all perfections ; and he must not be carried away by the words 
of every impudent fellow or deceitful person, who says that he 
has captured the genii several times, unless he sees all these 
with his own eyes, but even then there is room for suspicion; 
inasmuch as those who know such things are usually silent, 
while those who do not know pretend to such powers in order 
to deceive the simple. The fifth is, that he should not engage 
himself in a literary controversy with a student fresh from the 
nook of the college, who will destroy the tranquillity of his 
fit) companions (for him). The seventh is, that he must 
know the Arabic, Persian, Hindustani and Turkish languages. 
But he should know the other questions of philosophy, but 
only to an extent that he may be able to say “ I know.’” 
with those ten. If they have named him Mirza Jalal al-Din 
Yusuf, he must not encumber himself with all this, but shorten- 
ing it style himself Mirza Yisuf. When purchasing a thing 
wanted by him, he should not make any difficulty about 
1 Died 690 a.n. 
