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2 Maccabees 15:39
Original
39For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste: even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story. And here shall be an end.
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37Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the Hebrews had the city in their power. And here will I make an end.
38And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired: but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
— 2 Maccabees 15:39 —