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four turns of fortune appear, good and evil, life and death; and it is the tongue that continually rules them.
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A man may be shrewd and the teacher of many, and yet be unprofitable to himself.
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A man skilled in words may be hated; he will be destitute of all food,
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for grace was not given him by the Lord, since he is lacking in all wisdom.
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