Allege not, when thou work’st a deed of shame,
The scoundrel’s plea, “My forebears did the same.”
Al-Ma’arri (973 – 1057), quoted in Studies in Islamic Poetry
Allege not, when thou work’st a deed of shame,
The scoundrel’s plea, “My forebears did the same.”
Al-Ma’arri (973 – 1057), quoted in Studies in Islamic Poetry