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NUMBER:22472
QUOTATION:For lust of knowing what should not be known,
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
ATTRIBUTION:James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), British poet. Ishak, in Hassan, act 5, sc. 2 (1922).
 
 
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