Grains of corn need their covering of chaff, but it is proper for us to separate them. What foul cooks are these! They churn the buttermilk into the butter! You fool! You call your boy a girl before the very midwife who delivered him. Their skill, says Tuka, is merely a vainglorious boast.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1546
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents