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You will keep your friends
    if you forgive them,
but you will lose your friends
if you keep talking about
    what they did wrong.
10 A sensible person
    accepts correction,
but you can't beat sense
    into a fool.

11 Cruel people want to rebel,
and so vicious attackers
    will be sent against them.

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Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,(A)
    but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.(B)

10 A rebuke impresses a discerning person
    more than a hundred lashes a fool.

11 Evildoers foster rebellion against God;
    the messenger of death will be sent against them.

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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

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