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Ecclesiasticus 31:35-40 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

35. Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful, and not to make them drunk.

36. Wine drunken with moderation is the joy of the soul and the heart.

37. Sober drinking is health to soul and body.

38. Wine drunken with excess raiseth quarrels; and wrath, and many ruins.

39. Wine drunken with excess is bitterness of the soul.

40. The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool, lessening strength and causing wounds.

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