“All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.”

—  Richard Francis Burton

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

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British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, … 1821–1890

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