Proverbs 17:1; Proverbs 17:12

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Proverbs 17:1

1 A meal of bread and water in contented peace is better than a banquet spiced with quarrels.

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Proverbs 17:12

12 Better to meet a grizzly robbed of her cubs than a fool hellbent on folly.

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