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When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you;
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And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.
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Do not desire his delicacies, For they are deceptive food.
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Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease
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Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.
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Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his delicacies;
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For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.
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The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.
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Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.