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10 Teacher: Remember the saying,
        Dead flies can spoil a good perfume.
    In the same way, all the wisdom and honor in the world cannot outweigh a moment’s folly.
    Wise people move to the right where they honor the goodness of God’s creation,
        while fools move to the left and choose to ignore it.

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10 As dead flies give perfume a bad smell,
    so a little folly(A) outweighs wisdom and honor.
The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
    but the heart of the fool to the left.

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