OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 6:5

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Sweet words will multiply a man’s friends. A gracious tongue will multiply courtesies.

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Verse 5. Appeaseth. Greek “and an eloquent tongue multiplies good words.” Bible.—The affable gain our affections. Gideon pacified the incensed Ephraimites by a mild answer. Judith 8. Worthington.

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