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• The price of wisdom is above rubies. -- Old Testament -- Job xxviii, 18
• Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xv, 17...
• It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxi, 9...
• Open rebuke is better than secret love. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxvii, 5
• Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?
  -- Old Testament -- Judges v, viii, 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...
• Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom
  and with all thy getting get understanding. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs iv, 7...
• A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxv, 11...
• So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs vi, 11...