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diff --git a/tfortune.c b/tfortune.c
index 02e54ea..e3eef04 100644
--- a/tfortune.c
+++ b/tfortune.c
@@ -302,9 +302,16 @@ static char *get_basedir(void)
 static char *get_epidir(void)
 {
 	char *basedir, *epidir;
+	struct stat s;
+
 	basedir = get_basedir();
 	xasprintf(&epidir, "%s/epigrams", basedir);
 	free(basedir);
+	if (!OPT_GIVEN(TFORTUNE, BASEDIR) && stat(epidir, &s) < 0) {
+		free(epidir);
+		epidir = xstrdup(DATADIR "/tfortunes/epigrams");
+		INFO_LOG("falling back to system-wide epidir %s\n", epidir);
+	}
 	return epidir;
 }