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of keeping accounts with a partner or with traveling companions, and of dividing the inheritance of friends;
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of accuracy with scales and weights, and of acquiring much or little;
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of profit from dealing with merchants, and of frequent disciplining of children, and of drawing blood from the back of a wicked slave.
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Where there is an untrustworthy wife, a seal is a good thing; and where there are many hands, lock things up.
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When you make a deposit, be sure it is counted and weighed, and when you give or receive, put it all in writing.
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Do not be ashamed to correct the stupid or foolish or the aged who are guilty of sexual immorality. Then you will show your sound training, and will be approved by all.
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A daughter is a secret anxiety to her father, and worry over her robs him of sleep; when she is young, for fear she may not marry, or if married, for fear she may be disliked;
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while a virgin, for fear she may be seduced and become pregnant in her father's house; or having a husband, for fear she may go astray, or, though married, for fear she may be barren.
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Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, or she may make you a laughingstock to your enemies, a byword in the city and the assembly of the people, and put you to shame in public gatherings. See that there is no lattice in her room, no spot that overlooks the approaches to the house.
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Do not let her parade her beauty before any man, or spend her time among married women;
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for from garments comes the moth, and from a woman comes woman's wickedness.