| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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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 (18841915), British poet. Ishak, in Hassan, act 5, sc. 2 (1922). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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