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• A threefold cord is not quickly broken. -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes iv, 12
• Let thy words be few. -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes v, 2
• Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
  -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes xii, 12...
• Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
  -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes xi, 7...
• Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
  -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes v, 5...
• Vain is the help of man. -- Old Testament -- Psalm lx, 11; cviii, 12
• Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.
  -- Old Testament -- Job xx, 12...
• Be not righteous overmuch. -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes vii, 16
• There is no discharge in that war. -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes viii, 8