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A Caliph of Baghdad named Al-Mamun owned a beautiful Arabian horse. A tribesman
called Omah was eager to buy the horse so he offered many camels in exchange for
it, but Al-Mamun would not part with the animal. This so angered Omah that he
decided to get the horse by trickery.
Knowing that Al-Mamun would ride his horse along a certain road, he lay down
beside the road disguised as a beggar who was very ill. Now Al-Mamun was a kind-
hearted man so when he saw the beggar he felt sorry for him, dism
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Jeremiah was in love with a very tall woman. Each night he would walk her home
from work and each night he longed to kiss her but was too shy to ask.
One night he summoned up the courage. “Will you let me kiss you?” She was
agreeable. But Jeremiah was exceptionally small in stature, so they looked around
for something he could stand on. They found an abandoned smithy with an anvil in
it that gave Jeremiah just the height he needed.
After they had walked on for half a mile or so, Jeremiah said. “
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An old pilgrim was making his way to the Himalayan Mountains in the bitter cold of
winter when it began to ram.
An innkeeper said to him, “How will you ever get there in this kind of weather, my
good man?”
The old man answered cheerfully, “My heart got there first, so it’s easy for the
rest of me to follow.”
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When an eight-year-old girl spent her pocket money to buy her mother a gift, her
mother was grateful and happy for a mother and house-wife generally gets much work
and little appreciation.
The girl seemed to have understood this for she said, “It’s because you work so
hard, mother, and no one appreciates it.”
The woman said, “Your father works hard too.”
Said the girl, “Yes, but he doesn’t make a fuss about it.”
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Once some of the elders were in Scete and Abbot John the Dwarf was with them.
While they were dining, a priest, a very old man, got up and attempted to serve
them. But no one would take so much as a cup of water from him except John the
Dwarf.
The others were somewhat shocked about this and later said to him, “How is it that
you considered yourself worthy to accept the service of that holy man?”
He replied, “Well, when I offer people a drink of water I’m happy if they take it.
Did you expect me
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An old woman in the village was said to be receiving divine apparitions. The local
priest demanded proof of their authenticity. “When God next appears to you,” he
said, “ask Him to tell you my sins which are known to Him alone. That should be
evidence enough.”
The woman returned a month later and the priest asked if God had appeared to her
again. She said He had. “Did you put the question to him?”
“And what did He say?”
“He said. “Tell your priest I have forgotten his sins.
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Is it possible
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