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All his people and his armies obey him. Furthermore, he reclines, he eats and drinks and sleeps,
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but they keep watch around him, and no one may go away to attend to his own affairs, nor do they disobey him.
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Gentlemen, why is not the king the strongest, since he is to be obeyed in this fashion?" And he stopped speaking.
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Then the third, who had spoken of women and truth (and this was Zerubbabel), began to speak:
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"Gentlemen, is not the king great, and are not men many, and is not wine strong? Who is it, then, that rules them, or has the mastery over them? Is it not women?
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Women gave birth to the king and to every people that rules over sea and land.
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From women they came; and women brought up the very men who plant the vineyards from which comes wine.
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Women make men's clothes; they bring men glory; men cannot exist without women.
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If men gather gold and silver or any other beautiful thing, and then see a woman lovely in appearance and beauty,
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they let all those things go, and gape at her, and with open mouths stare at her, and all prefer her to gold or silver or any other beautiful thing.
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A man leaves his own father, who brought him up, and his own country, and clings to his wife.