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Excerpt from The Life of Edward Fitzgerald
Omar's attitude towards the Deity, his love of wine, his reasoning and his humour are all set plainly before us. But fitzgerald picked and chose. He makes no use of the passages in praise of poverty, and omits the offensive utterances about drunkenness; and for sayings like the following he has no counterpart: 'make but few friends; distant intercourse with one's fellowmen is good.' 'woe to that heart in which there is no passion, which is not spellbound by the love of a dear companion; the day that thou spendest without love, there is no day more useless to thee than that day.' On the other hand, here and there appear stanzas that are practically original.
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