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Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with labour and pursuit of the wind.

And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

There is one [alone] and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.

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