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He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

The appetite of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the appetite of the diligent is abundantly supplied.(A)

A [consistently] righteous man hates lying and deceit, but a wicked man is loathsome [his very breath spreads pollution] and he comes [surely] to shame.

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