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"TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE" (Paris omaia para) — Arab Proverb.

"Niunna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole." — "Decameron" — conclusion.

"Ernbuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum Sed coram Bruto. Brute I recede, leget." — Martial.

"Mieuix est de ris que de larmes escripre, Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes." — Rabelais.

"The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One-Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions." — Crichton's "History of Arabia.