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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4905)	7/3/1999 10:28:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

'This above all'- Mir Taqi Mir (On drinking & losing one's intelligence) (Courtesy:Khushwant Singh) ..A repartee I found acceptable runs as follows, "once, in the Pavilion of Pleasure, the Shah asked Mirza Sahib to have some wine. When the Mirza declined, the Shah asked for a reason. "It takes away one's intelligence," the Mirza replied. The Shah didn't accept that and pressed him even more. Finally the Mirza gave in, and became so drunk that by midnight he had to be removed from the gathering. Next morning, when he again came to the court, the Shah said to him, "You made quite a mess of yourself last night. No one should be so shallow when it comes to holding his liquor." The Mirza said, "I humbly told you that wine takes away one's intelligence. The Shah retorted. "But then didn't I drink too?" The Mirza replied. "But the reasoning concerned losing one's intelligence — you had none to begin with." tribuneindia.com