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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Yaqut al-Hamawi

Born: 1179
Died: August 27, 1229 (aged 50)
Bio: Yāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī was an Arab biographer and geographer of Greek origin, renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world.