The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Better it is to hear the rebuke of a wise man, than that a man should hear the song of fools.

For like the noise of the [a]thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:8 Which crackle for a while and profit nothing.

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