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“I am Lady Wisdom, and I live next to Sanity; Knowledge and Discretion live just down the street. The Fear-ofGod means hating Evil, whose ways I hate with a passion—pride and arrogance and crooked talk. Good counsel and common sense are my characteristics; I am both Insight and the Virtue to live it out. Proverbs 8:12-13

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