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Ali Quli Qara'i
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She said, ‘Indeed when kings enter a town, they devastate it, and reduce the mightiest of its people to the most abased. That is how they act.
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Pickthal
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She said: Lo! kings, when they enter a township, ruin it and make the honour of its people shame. Thus will they do.
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Shakir
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She said: Surely the kings, when they enter a town, ruin it and make the noblest of its people to be low, and thus they (always) do;
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Yusufali
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She said: "Kings, when they enter a country, despoil it, and make the noblest of its people its meanest thus do they behave.
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