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What belongs to youth is wine, the limpid juice of the

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What belongs to youth is wine, the limpid juice of the by Omar Khayyam

What belongs to youth is wine, the limpid juice of the
vine and the society of beauty; and since water once
brought ruin to this world by annihilating it, it is our
part to drown ourselves in wine, to pass our life in
drunkenness complete.

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