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Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

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Ameen Rihani
Age: 63 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 24
Died: 1940
Died: September 13
Essayist
Historian
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Ottoman Levant
Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī
Ameen Fares Rihani
Amin Rihani
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No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .
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I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
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