Ben Sira 13:9

9 If you are invited to the home of someone influential, be reserved in your behavior. Then he will invite you more often.

Ben Sira 13:9 In-Context

7 He will feed you until you are embarrassed. Finally, when he has drained you two or three times over, he will laugh at you. If you see him later, he will pretend he doesn't know you, and will pass you by.
8 Be careful not to be misled; you can be enjoying yourself and suddenly find yourself humiliated.
9 If you are invited to the home of someone influential, be reserved in your behavior. Then he will invite you more often.
10 If you push yourself on him, he will put you in your place. On the other hand, if you keep your distance from him, he will forget about you.
11 Don't pretend to be his equal or trust everything he says. In spite of all of his long and polite conversation, he is testing you.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.