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Ecclesiasticus 37:31

For all things are not expedient for all, and every kind pleaseth not every soul.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
non enim omnia omnibus expediunt, et non omni animæ omne genus placet.
Septuagint (Swete)
Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.

Haydock's commentary

Soul. "We must not dispute about tastes." (Haydock)

They are as various as men's faces. All conditions do not suit every person.

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.

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