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Hearken, O Lord, to the prayer of thy servants, according to the blessing of Aaron for thy people, and all who are on the earth will know that thou art the Lord, the God of the ages.
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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?