These fools, by dint of ignorance most crass,

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These fools, by dint of ignorance most crass, by Omar Khayyam

These fools, by dint of ignorance most crass,
Think they in wisdom all mankind surpass;
And glibly do they damn as infidel,
Whoever is not, like themselves, an ass.

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