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Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven pillars.
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She has slaughtered her beasts, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table.
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She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the town,
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"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who is without sense she says,
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"Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
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Leave simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of insight."
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He who corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
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Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
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Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.