OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 40:20

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Wine and music rejoice the heart. The love of wisdom is better than both.

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Verse 20. Wisdom. Virtue gives more content to the soul than corporal pleasures do to the body. It brings us near to God. Calmet.

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