'Dante, the poet, was a man of warm tern per 'arid a'infty spirit, ffe had qualifies sufficient, to procure him friends’ Imt not discretion hhougli to keep them'. A Prince of V.eroha who had taken him tinder' his wing, observed once in conversation .with him how strange a. custom it wrts for persons of rank to keep a. domestic’ called a. fool, to be laughed at and humored. “The fool, 5 ’ lie said, “gives us pleasure and is a great favorite, whereas a wise man is often slighted and even treated with contempt.” Thoughtlessly, Dante replied: “This custom of men of rank is not strango at all. A similitude of mind is the basis of friendship.'” " ’
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12870, 25 May 1936, Page 5
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