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• A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxv, 11...
• A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xv, 13
• The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xiv, 23
• In a good old age. -- Old Testament -- Genesis xv, 15
• Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xv, 17...
• He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xv, 15
• A word in season spoken May calm the troubled breast.
  -- Charles Jefferys (1807-1865) -- A Word in Seaso...
• A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxii, 1
• A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xvii, 22