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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.
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With his wife he ends his days, with no thought of his father or his mother or his country.
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Therefore you must realize that women rule over you! "Do you not labor and toil, and bring everything and give it to women?
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A man takes his sword, and goes out to travel and rob and steal and to sail the sea and rivers;
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he faces lions, and he walks in darkness, and when he steals and robs and plunders, he brings it back to the woman he loves.
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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.