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• I have seen many things on my travels, I have understood more than I can put into words. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 11)

• As the palate discerns the flavour of game, so a shrewd listener detects lying words. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 19)

• Another considers himself wise and proclaims his intellectual conclusions as certainties. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 22)

• But the truly wise instructs his people and his intellectual conclusions are certainties. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 23)

• The wise is showered with blessings, and all who see him will call him happy. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 24)

• The wise will earn confidence among the people, his name will live for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 26)

• Leisure gives the scribe the chance to acquire wisdom; a man with few commitments can grow wise. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 24)

• How can the ploughman become wise, whose sole ambition is to wield the goad, driving his oxen, engrossed in their work, his conversation limited to bullocks, (Ecclesiasticus 38, 25)

• If such be the will of the great Lord, he will be filled with the spirit of intelligence, he will shower forth words of wisdom, and in prayer give thanks to the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 6)

• A life spent in eyeing someone else's table cannot be accounted a life at all. Other people's food defiles the gullet; a wise, well-brought-up person will beware of doing this. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 29)

• Next, I shall remind you of the works of the Lord, and tell of what I have seen. By the words of the Lord his works come into being and all creation obeys his will. (Ecclesiasticus 42, 15)

• At the words of the Holy One they stand as he decrees, and never grow slack at their watch. (Ecclesiasticus 43, 10)