If you know to what to cling upon this walk around

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If you know to what to cling upon this walk around by Omar Khayyam

If you know to what to cling upon this walk around
a circle without end, you must recognize two classes
of men: those who understand perfectly its good and its
bad side, and those who have no notion either of themselves
or of things here below.
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