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What a calamity! What a great calamity! Did I suffer such a painful beating and will my hand be cut off, just because I ate the ragout spiced with cumin and forgot to wash my hands? May god curse this ragout and its very existence.

This then is my adventure and strange story. Isn't it, O King, more amazing than the hunchback's story?
The king of China replied, "No, it is not more amazing than the hunchback's story, and i must hang all four of you for the hunchback's death."

"Tell me, brother, if you and I perform our wedding on the same day and consummate our marriage on the same night and if your wife and mine conceive on our wedding night and at the end of their pregnancy give birth on the same day and if your wife gives birth to a boy and my wife to a girl, tell me, will you marry your son to my daughter?"

There is no power and no strength save in God, the Almighty, the Magnificent. I have taunted the one-eyed young men until I became one-eyed like them.

Better for me and meet to see you not, for if the eye sees nought, the heart grieves not.

Your gifts you lavished like the bounteous moon, And like the moon your fame did rise and grow. If moon I call you, no, the moon goes down, And if I call you sun, the sun sinks low.