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Sirach 6:7
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7If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first and be not hasty to credit him.
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5Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fairspeaking tongue will increase kind greetings.
6Be in peace with many: nevertheless have but one counsellor of a thousand.
— Sirach 6:7 —
8For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.
9And there is a friend, who being turned to enmity, and strife will discover thy reproach.