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لالابرا كل شى برّ
"TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE"
(Paris omnia pura) —Arab Proverb
- Niana corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole."
—"Decameron " — conclusion.
"Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto. Brute I recede, leget. "
— Martial.
"Mieulx 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
Stones makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small
part of these truly enchanting fictions."
— Crichton's "History of Arabia.
