A Woman's Man

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London, 1920 - 336 pages

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Page 28 - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." But he knoweth not that the dead are there ; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Page 168 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 147 - For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, And that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Page 70 - Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house : lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel...
Page 226 - And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Page 162 - Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.
Page 3 - Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.
Page 266 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 256 - Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Page 55 - The first wrote, Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.

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