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YOUNG MAN HOLDING A BOTTLE OF WINE
Persian miniature, mid-16th century
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, CT, United States
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'Since I am in the flower of youth,
I will spend it drinking wine, for this is my greatest pleasure.
Do not speak ill of the delicious juice for its bitterness,
for it is agreeable: it is bitter because it is my life.'
Omar Khayyam, Rhe Rubaiyat (quatrain 24)
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