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With friend or foe do not report it, and unless it would be a sin for you, do not disclose it;
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for some one has heard you and watched you, and when the time comes he will hate you.
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Have you heard a word? Let it die with you. Be brave! It will not make you burst!
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With such a word a fool will suffer pangs like a woman in labor with a child.
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Like an arrow stuck in the flesh of the thigh, so is a word inside a fool.
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Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything, so that he may do it no more.
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Question a neighbor, perhaps he did not say it; but if he said it, so that he may not say it again.
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Question a friend, for often it is slander; so do not believe everything you hear.
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A person may make a slip without intending it. Who has never sinned with his tongue?
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Question your neighbor before you threaten him; and let the law of the Most High take its course.