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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Author Unknown

A Group of Indian Epigrams: The Five Double U’s

Translation of Charles Rockwell Lanman, editor

WINSOMENESS, wardrobe, words of eloquence,

Wisdom, and wealth, bring men to consequence.

That’s something which a man in vain pursues

Who is not blest with these five w’s.