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Amazon.com   p. 286     WOE to the children banished from their
father's table.  A handful of food will not satisfy the lion,
neither can a pit be filled again with its own dust.   Cease not
to pray even when the knife is laid upon thy neck.  Open not thy
mouth to speak evil.  To be patient is sometimes better than to
have much wealth.  The horse fed too liberally with oats becomes
unruly.  Happy the pupil whose teacher approves his words.  When
the cucumbers are young we may tell whether they will become
good for food.  Do not to others what you would not have others
do to you.  The ass complains of the cold even in July (Tamuz).
First learn and then teach.  Few are they who see their own
faults.  A single light answers as well for a hundred men as for
one.  Victuals prepared by many cooks will be neither hot nor
cold.  p. 287  The world is a wedding.  Youth is a wreath of
roses.  A myrtle even in the desert remains a myrtle.   The
house which op