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When you go out to dinner with an influential person, mind your manners: |
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Don't gobble your food, don't talk with your mouth full. |
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And don't stuff yourself; bridle your appetite. |
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Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich; restrain yourself! |
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Riches disappear in the blink of an eye; wealth sprouts wings and flies off into the wild blue yonder. |
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Don't accept a meal from a tightwad; don't expect anything special. |
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He'll be as stingy with you as he is with himself; he'll say, "Eat! Drink!" but won't mean a word of it. |
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His miserly serving will turn your stomach when you realize the meal's a sham. |
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Don't bother talking sense to fools; they'll only poke fun at your words. |
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Don't stealthily move back the boundary lines or cheat orphans out of their property, |
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For they have a powerful Advocate who will go to bat for them. |
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Give yourselves to disciplined instruction; open your ears to tested knowledge. |
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Don't be afraid to correct your young ones; a spanking won't kill them. |
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A good spanking, in fact, might save them from something worse than death. |
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Dear child, if you become wise, I'll be one happy parent. |
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My heart will dance and sing to the tuneful truth you'll speak. |
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Don't for a minute envy careless rebels; soak yourself in the Fear-of-GOD-- |
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That's where your future lies. Then you won't be left with an armload of nothing. |
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Oh listen, dear child--become wise; point your life in the right direction. |
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Don't drink too much wine and get drunk; don't eat too much food and get fat. |
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Drunks and gluttons will end up on skid row, in a stupor and dressed in rags. |
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Listen with respect to the father who raised you, and when your mother grows old, don't neglect her. |
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Buy truth--don't sell it for love or money; buy wisdom, buy education, buy insight. |
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Parents rejoice when their children turn out well; wise children become proud parents. |
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So make your father happy! Make your mother proud! |
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Dear child, I want your full attention; please do what I show you. |
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A whore is a bottomless pit; a loose woman can get you in deep trouble fast. |
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She'll take you for all you've got; she's worse than a pack of thieves. |
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Who are the people who are always crying the blues? Who do you know who reeks of self-pity? Who keeps getting beat up for no reason at all? Whose eyes are bleary and bloodshot? |
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It's those who spend the night with a bottle, for whom drinking is serious business. |
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Don't judge wine by its label, or its bouquet, or its full-bodied flavor. |
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Judge it rather by the hangover it leaves you with-- the splitting headache, the queasy stomach. |
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Do you really prefer seeing double, with your speech all slurred, |
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Reeling and seasick, drunk as a sailor? |
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"They hit me," you'll say, "but it didn't hurt; they beat on me, but I didn't feel a thing. When I'm sober enough to manage it, bring me another drink!" |
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