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If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;
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Verse 3. Than he, since the latter has injured no one, nor experienced any evil in the world, ( Calmet.) by his own fault; ( Menochius.) whereas the miser has both hurt himself and others, and has neglected to make himself friends of the mammon of iniquity.
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