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With friend or foe do not report it, and unless it would be a sin for you, do not reveal it;
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for someone may have heard you and watched you, and in time will hate you.
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Have you heard something? Let it die with you. Be brave, it will not make you burst!
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Having heard something, the fool suffers birth pangs like a woman in labor with a child.
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Like an arrow stuck in a person's thigh, so is gossip inside a fool.
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