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A man loves his wife more than his father or his mother.
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Many men have lost their minds because of women, and have become slaves because of them.
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Many have perished, or stumbled, or sinned because of women.
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And now do you not believe me? "Is not the king great in his power? Do not all lands fear to touch him?
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Yet I have seen him with Apame, the king's concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Bartacus; she would sit at the king's right hand
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