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Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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- Idries Shah
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- Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1924 to 1996; Wikidata Q505466, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505466 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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