[Ads-l] An unattributed quote

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Wilson Gray wrote:
> But when “the phoenix of prosperity wishes to make the roof of one
> man its abode, and the owl of misfortune to haunt the threshold of
> another neither scarcity of equipment nor feebleness of condition
> prevents the fortunate man from attaining his goal …”
>
> http://www.livescience.com/43260-genghis-khan.html
> Genghis Khan, Founder of Mongol Empire: Facts & Biography

The Live Science article mentioned "Juvayni". Here is a citation.

Year: 1997
Title: Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror
Author: 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini
Translated from text of: Mizra Muhammad Qazvini
Translator: John Andrew Boyle
Series: Unesco collection of representative works
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Quote Page 19
Database: Google Books Preview

[Begin excerpt]
When the phoenix (huma) [1] of prosperity wishes to make the roof of
one man its abode, and the owl of misfortune to haunt the threshold of
another, though their stations be widely different, the one in the
zenith of good fortune and the other in the nadir of abasement, yet
neither scarcity of equipment nor feebleness of condition prevents the
fortunate man from attaining his goal---

[1] The huma, a bird of good omen, is actually the Lammergeyer.
[End excerpt]

Garson

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