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He who covers a transgression seeks love,
    but he who repeats a matter separates friends.

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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love, but he that repeateth a matter separateth good friends.

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Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
    but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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Faithful are the wounds from a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart,
    so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
    nor go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
    for better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far off.

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Ointment and perfume make the heart rejoice; so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by counsel from the heart.

10 Thine own friend and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity; for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

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