“You know said old Nasreddin, now at eighty I am exactly as strong as I used to be sixty years ago”
“How can you say such a thing, wondered a neighbour. At eighty you just cannot be like a young man!”
“But it’s true!”
“Can you prove it?”
“Yes.”
“How?”
“You can witness it with your own eyes. You know the big millstone by the public well. Once when I was twenty I tried to move it and it didn’t budge. Yesterday I tried again and again I couldn’t move it. The same as when I was young”
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