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The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.
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The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonours the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.
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Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not:
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the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.
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Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing amiss.