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Crooks walk down a road
full of thorny traps.
    Stay away from there!
(A) Teach your children
    right from wrong,
and when they are grown
    they will still do right.
The poor are ruled by the rich,
and those who borrow
    are slaves of moneylenders.

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In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls,(A)
    but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.

Start(B) children off on the way they should go,(C)
    and even when they are old they will not turn from it.(D)

The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.

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