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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1

Note 44 — TALE OF THE TRADER AND THE JINNI.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

With us moderns "liver" suggests nothing but malady: in Arabic and Persian as in the classic literature of Europe it is the seat of passion, the heart being that of affection. Of this more presently.

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