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Let's drink the most expensive wines and use the finest perfumes. Let's not miss a single flower in the springtime!
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Our time on earth is like a passing shadow. There is no escape from the day of our death; it is fixed, and no one can postpone it."
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The wicked say, "Come on, then, let's enjoy the good things of life, and live in this world the way we did when we were young and free of care!
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Let's drink the most expensive wines and use the finest perfumes. Let's not miss a single flower in the springtime!
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Before the roses wither, let's pick them and wear them in our hair!
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Let's all join in and leave signs everywhere of our carefree revelry! Life owes us that much!
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.