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an.10.77 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

A Crow

“Mendicants, a crow has ten bad qualities.
What ten?
They’re rude and impudent, gluttonous and voracious, cruel and pitiless, weak and raucous, unmindful and acquisitive.
A crow has these ten bad qualities.
In the same way, a bad mendicant has these ten bad qualities.
What ten?
They’re rude and impudent, gluttonous and voracious, cruel and pitiless, weak and raucous, unmindful and acquisitive.
A bad mendicant has these ten bad qualities.”