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"I knew a poor tailor. He lived such a miserable life that he never ate a hot meal. But he did have a coffeehouse meerschaum pipe, a sort of two-korona ordinary item. On Sundays he would stand outside the gate with it and pipe proudly. He thought nobody else in the world had one. And when asked in jest how much he would sell it for, he said seriously that no one in the village had enough money to match it. There are such pipes in the spiritual world. He who has little brags about it. He who has much hides it."