Classy Arabic Poetry

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Egyptian Arabic proverb of the day: الأيام الجايه كتير el-ayyām el-gāya kitīr "There are many days to come." Said when there isn't enough time to do what you want at the moment, or something is preventing you from doing it.

—An Education— 💔 You, ignorant of it, taught me what love is — I, patiently wronged, taught you to wrong me more. I know what I am to you but my love made me ignorant; I forget what I knew before. —Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Ṣūlī (Iraq, d. 857)

Egyptian Arabic proverb of the day يوم عسل يوم بصل yōm ʿasal, yōm baṣal "A day of honey, a day of onion," meaning everything has its ups and downs

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🍷 Curst and poor is every hour that sober I must go, but rich am I whene'er well drunk I stagger to and fro.