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Don’t weary yourself to be rich.
    In your wisdom, show restraint.
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?
    For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

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Saying 8

Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
    do not trust your own cleverness.
Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,(A)
    for they will surely sprout wings
    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.(B)

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