Dave L Wrote:
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> Thanks Prema.
>
> I'm just waiting for Aristotle to arrive with his
> Nicomachean Ethics, after that I will probably go
> for Thiruvalluvar.
>
> If you are into these old works there is an
> interesting book of poems and advice caled the
> Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. "The Rubaiyat is not a
> single poem, but is rather a collection of verses
> written by or attributed to 'Umar Khayyam, the
> Persian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer
> who lived from ca. 1048 - 1122."
>

name does ring a bell. I must read it. Thanks.

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> Dave L