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This Yemen is a treasure house...We conquered it, but up to this day we have had no return and no advantage from it. There have only been innumerable expenses, the sending out of troops...and expectations which did not produce what was hoped for in the end.

— Saladin Letter to al-‘Adil (1181)

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This is a victory opening the gates of men’s hearts.

Children are brought up in the way in which their elders were brought up.

Munich 113. Lyons and Jackson (1982)

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