Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please. — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please. — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please. — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please. — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please. — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
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Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please.

— Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
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