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Author: Abai Qunanbaiuly
Published: 1898
Language: qazaxca

Forty-five philosophical prose pieces written by Abai in 1890–1898. He urges his people to give up idleness, envy and empty talk and to live by knowledge, work and conscience. It is the most quoted book in Kazakh literature.

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