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"IF YOU ARE WISE...

 you will show yourself
rather as a reservoir than a canal.
For a canal spills abroad the water it receives
but a reservoir waits till it is filled before overflowing, 
and then shares without loss to itself -
its superabundance..."

BjR  5 October, '09