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Quotation from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (ed.)
“I have only reached this happy state after having for years suffered every possible kind of toil and danger.”
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor (introduction), trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898)
Sindbad gently corrects the porter Hindbad, who has complained aloud that the rich sailor's life is easy.
Citation: "I have only reached this happy state after having for years suffered every possible kind of toil and danger." — Andrew Lang (ed.), The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor (introduction), trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898). (id the-arabian-nights-q6)
Portrait: Arabian nights' entertainments (Longman 1898) Ford illustration to frontispiece, Henry Justice Ford, Public domain.
