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Proverbs 22:16

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16 Exploit the poor or glad-hand the rich - whichever, you'll end up the poorer for it. The Thirty Precepts of the Sages Don't Move Back the Boundary Lines
16 One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.
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