"Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust."
— Dust

January 1, 1970

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Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat (1120), XXVII, as translated in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Fifth edition (1889) by Edward FitzGerald.