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Fools say, “I don’t have a friend, and there’s no gratitude for my good deeds.” Those who eat the bread of such people have mean tongues.
To day a man lendeth, and to morrow he asketh it again: such a man as this is hateful.
Then that fool will say, Nobody likes me. Nobody appreciates what I do for them. They'll take what I give them, but then talk about me behind my back.
A fool says, “I have no friends nor thanks for my generosity.” Those who eat his bread have a mocking tongue.
The fool will say, “I have no friends, and I get no thanks for my good deeds;
The fool says, ‘I have no friends, and I get no thanks for my good deeds. Those who eat my bread are evil-tongued.’
The fool says, ‘I have no friends, and I get no thanks for my good deeds. Those who eat my bread are evil-tongued.’
The fool says, “I have no friends, and I get no thanks for my good deeds. Those who eat my bread are evil-tongued.”
The fool says, “I have no friends, and I get no thanks for my good deeds.” Those who eat his bread are evil-tongued.
A fool will say, “I have no friend, and there is no gratitude for my good deeds; those who eat my bread speak unkindly.”
A fool will say, “I have no friend, and there is no gratitude for my good deeds; those who eat my bread speak unkindly.”
A friend shall not be to a fool [or To a fool shall not be a friend], and grace shall not be to his goods. For they that eat his bread, be of false tongue, that is, flatterers praising his follies;
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