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“To the pure all things are pure”
(Puris omnia pura)
— Arab Proverb.
“Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”
— “Decameron” — conclusion.
“Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto. Brute! 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 Stories
makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of
these truly enchanting fictions.”
— Crichton’s “History of Arabia.”
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