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Fate will not bend to humour man’s caprice,
So vaunt not human powers but hold your peace,
Here must we stay, weighed down with grief for this,
That we were born so late, so soon decease.

— Omar Khayyám A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
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