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Open rebuke is better than secret love.

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

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Better is open rebuke
Than love that is hidden.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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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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Oil and perfume rejoice the heart;
So doth the sweetness of a man’s friend that cometh of hearty counsel.
10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not;
And go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity:
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

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14 He that, rising early in the morning, blesseth his friend with a loud voice: it shall be counted as a curse to him.

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14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
It shall be counted a curse to him.

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17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

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17 Iron sharpeneth iron;
So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

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