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Quotation from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (ed.)

“who can help laughing to see an old fool offering to exchange fine new lamps for old ones?”

Andrew Lang (ed.) (spoken by A slave of the princess)

The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898)

Portrait of Andrew Lang (ed.)

The disguised magician cries new lamps for old outside the palace while Aladdin is away hunting.

Citation: "who can help laughing to see an old fool offering to exchange fine new lamps for old ones?" — Andrew Lang (ed.), The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898). (id the-arabian-nights-q7)

Portrait: Arabian nights' entertainments (Longman 1898) Ford illustration to frontispiece, Henry Justice Ford, Public domain.

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