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14 A foolish person talks too much about what he will do.
    No one knows the future.
    No one can tell him what will happen after he dies.

15 A foolish person doesn’t know even the most obvious things.
    He can’t even find his way back to town.
    So he has to wear himself out working.

The Value of Work

16 How terrible it will be for a country
    if its king is a child.
How terrible it will be for that country
    if its leaders have parties all the time.

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