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• Wisdom is better than rubies. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs viii, 11
• Babylon is fallen, is fallen. -- Old Testament -- Isaiah xxi, 9
• A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
  -- Old Testament -- Psalm lxxxiv, 10...
• If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell -- Old Testament -- Psalm cxxxix, 9
• Fools make a mock at sin. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xiv, 9
• Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xv, 17...
• Open rebuke is better than secret love. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxvii, 5
• It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.
  -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes vii, 2...
• He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty
  and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xvi, 32...