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Better to go to a house of mourning
    than to go to the house of feasting,
since that is the end of all mankind
—and the living should take it to heart.
Grief is better than laughter,
    for though the face is sad, the heart may be glad.
The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning,
    but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure.

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