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A skilled woodcutter may saw down a tree easy to handle and skillfully strip off all its bark, and then with pleasing workmanship make a useful vessel that serves life's needs,
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and burn the cast-off pieces of his work to prepare his food, and eat his fill.
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But a cast-off piece from among them, useful for nothing, a stick crooked and full of knots, he takes and carves with care in his leisure, and shapes it with skill gained in idleness; he forms it in the likeness of a human being,
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or makes it like some worthless animal, giving it a coat of red paint and coloring its surface red and covering every blemish in it with paint;
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then he makes a suitable niche for it, and sets it in the wall, and fastens it there with iron.