Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Hatim Tai, the Oriental exemplar of sympathy and self-sacrifice, one day happened upon a wolf pursuing a doe, and, unwilling to allow the wolf to go hungry, though wishing to save his prey from his jaws, Hatim cut a slice from his own thigh to satisfy the appetite of the beast...