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Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 47

Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)

What is not placed cannot be reached by the hand and whatever is placed will be reached wherever it is.

        Hast thou heard that Alexander went into the darkness  
        And after all his efforts could not taste the water of immortality?

  

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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