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Quite new fibre cloth is of an ill colour, painful to
handle and of little worth; so is one of middling wear and one worn out. Men use
worn out fibre cloth for wiping cooking pots or they throw it away. So are a
novice, a monk of middle standing, or a senior monk, any of whom is immoral, of
"ill colour." Their followers suffer because of them; hence they are painful to
handle, and because gifts to them produce no good they are of little worth.
A.i.246 f.

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