Hafez — "I can't trust those who sneer at us drinking down to the lees: That is the kind …"
I can't trust those who sneer at us drinking down to the lees: That is the kind of thing which gets a bad name for religion.
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From a ghazal, as translated by Peter Avery
Date: c. 1325-1390 AD (original composition)
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