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Ecclesiastes 10:15

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The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.

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Verse 15. City. Being so stupid, that they know not, or will not take the pains to find what is most obvious. Calmet.—Thus the pagan philosophers knew all but what they ought to have known; (Saint Jerome) and many such wise worldlings never strive to discover the paths which lead to the city of eternal peace: like him who contemplated the stars, and fell into a ditch. Calmet.

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