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QUOTATION:Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
ATTRIBUTION:Omar Khayyám (c. 1048–1122), Persian astronomer, poet. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, st. 74, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (1879).
 
 
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