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A woman will accept any man as a husband, but one girl is preferable to another.
27
A woman's beauty lights up a man's face, and there is nothing he desires more.
28
If kindness and humility mark her speech, her husband is more fortunate than other men.
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He who acquires a wife gets his best possession, a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.
30
Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered; and where there is no wife, a man will become a fugitive and a wanderer.
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