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"The camel loves thorny grass. But the more it eats, the more the blood streams from its mouth; and still it will go on eating that same thorny grass and will not give it up. Worldly people suffer so much grief and pain, and yet after a few days they are just as they were. A man's wife dies, or turns unfaithful, and still he will marry again. A son dies, and how he grieves; and in a few days he has forgotten it all. The boy's mother, who was beside herself with grief, after a few days does up her hair again and puts on her jewellery! Such people are ruined by their daughters' weddings, and still they go on having daughters and sons year after year! They are ruined by lawsuits, and still they go to law! They cannot feed the children they have, or clothe them, or house them decently, and still another child comes every year.