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 TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE"

(Paris omnia para)

Arab Proverb.

'Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole."

"Decameron " conclusion.

" Erubui t, posuitque meum Lucretia librum Sed coram Bru to. Brute I recede, leget. "

Marticll,

" Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre, Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes. ' '

RABBLAIS.

"The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions."

CRICHTON'S "History of Arabia,