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result: for earth hath weightier functions than mere entertainment. Therefore, also, a woman angered is hardlier appeased: for woman was shaped of a bone. Pour oil or cooling water upon bone and it will no way dissolve; but do the like upon earth and it will soften and dissipate. How runs the text?—Compassionate as a father to his children.

Which seeks in marriage? The man seeks in marriage. For the woman is but the rib of the man; and having lost, he must ever hunt till he replaces and completes what is missing in him.

But when death touches the curtains of any house, the women are first who come to wail and lament, and not the men. For indeed, woman first brought death into the world.

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