• 'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

  Omar Khayyam
  Persian astronoom, poet 1048-1123
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. checker-board
2. destiny
3. thither
4. hither
5. closet
6. mates

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays. by : Omar Khayyam

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