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• Here is the lore, my sons, of the tongue’s use; hold fast by it, and thy own lips shall never be thy undoing, to ensnare thee in heinous wrong. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 7)

• Beware of habituating thy tongue to lewd talk; therein is matter of offence. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 17)

• Broken, the law of the most High; her plighted troth forsaken; sons borne to a paramour, has she not thrice played the wanton? (Ecclesiasticus 23, 33)

• Happiness it is to share thy home with a faithful wife; to have a tongue that never betrays thee; to serve only thy betters. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 11)

• Thy cistern thou wouldst not let leak, ever so little; and wouldst thou let a wanton wife roam at large? (Ecclesiasticus 25, 34)

• once a woman grows jealous, her tongue is a scourge to all alike. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 9)

• Haughty gaze and lowered eye-lid, there goes a wanton. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 12)

• than a prudent woman that can hold her tongue; a soul well disciplined is beyond all price. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 18)

• Stake that is held between two stones cannot escape; nor may sin be avoided when there is seller on this side, buyer on that. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 2)

• None can throw stone in air but at his own head’s peril, nor ever was blow struck treacherously, but the traitor must have his share of hurt; (Ecclesiasticus 27, 28)

• a man may fall into the pit he dug, trip on the stone he set in his neighbour’s path, perish in the snare he laid for another. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 29)

• Heat is gendered by the haste of rivalry, and bloodshed by hot blood; but it is tongue of witness that brings death. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 13)