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Bani Adam: Saadi’s most famous lines
Saadi’s three couplets beginning Bani Ādam, "the children of Adam", are the most famous lines of Persian poetry outside Iran. A version is woven into a carpet at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Every Iranian knows them by heart.
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