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The stomach will take any food, yet one food is better than another.
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As the palate tastes the kinds of game, so an intelligent mind detects false words.
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A perverse mind will cause grief, but a man of experience will pay him back.
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A woman will accept any man, but one daughter is better than another.
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A woman's beauty gladdens the countenance, and surpasses every human desire.
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If kindness and humility mark her speech, her husband is not like other men.
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He who acquires a wife gets his best possession, a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.
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Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered; and where there is no wife, a man will wander about and sigh.
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For who will trust a nimble robber that skips from city to city? So who will trust a man that has no home, and lodges wherever night finds him?