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When we meet, we will complain
Of our afflictions, that day,
For the feelings of the heart
No messenger can convey,
Nor is the voicing of grief
Keeping the feelings at bay.
No messenger knows
How to say what I can say.
- The Story of the Hunchback

Travel, and new friends will succeed the friends you lost,
And toil, for life's sweets do through toil come.
To stay wins you no honor nor from exile saves;
Set out to roam the world and leave your home.
When water stands, it stagnant turns and stinks
But tastes so sweet when it does flow and run.
- The Story of the Two Viziers