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• Silver and gold are judged by furnace and crucible, man by his repute.✻ (Heart of knave is ever set on mischief, heart of true man on wisdom.) (Proverbs 27, 21)

• a scold married, and a maid that supplants✻ her mistress. (Proverbs 30, 23)

• Fool that thrusts himself forward will prove a fool;✻ he had been better advised to hold his tongue. (Proverbs 30, 32)

• From early dawn she is up, assigning food to the household, so that each waiting-woman has her share. (Proverbs 31, 15)

• Let the snow lie cold if it will, she has no fears for her household; no servant of hers but is warmly clad. (Proverbs 31, 21)

• only we have no record of older days. So, believe me, the fame of to-morrow’s doings will be forgotten by the men of a later time. (Ecclesiastes 1, 11)

• Gold and silver I amassed, revenues of subject king and subject province; men-singers I had and women-singers, and all that man delights in; beakers a many, and jars of wine to fill them.✻ (Ecclesiastes 2, 8)

• I would hold my hand; no more should yonder sun see labours of mine. (Ecclesiastes 2, 20)

• and I told myself that God would give judgement one day between the just and the sinners, and all things would reach their appointed end then.✻ (Ecclesiastes 3, 17)

• I told myself that God’s purpose with the sons of men was to test them …… And that they might see they were only like the beasts …✻ (Ecclesiastes 3, 18)

• I have seen the whole world, from east to west, take part with the young man, the usurper that rises in the old king’s stead. (Ecclesiastes 4, 15)

• The old king, that had an immemorial line of ancestors;✻ and now posterity shall take no pride in him! All is frustration, and labour lost. (Ecclesiastes 4, 16)