“It pleases the heart to ignore it. You have done what pleases their hearts. You have sustained people among them. Yet they cover their faces in fear of tomorrow. There was an old man who was about to die, while his son was a child without knowledge.”
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Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
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