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“For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "Up" and "Down" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom,
Was never deep in anything but — Wine.”
The Rubaiyat (1120)
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Of all that one should care to…" by Omar Khayyám?
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