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Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food. (Proverbs 12:9)

Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil. (Proverbs 15:16)

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred. (Proverbs 15:17)

Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice. (Proverbs 16:8)

Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud. (Proverbs 16:19)

Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city. (Proverbs 16:32)

Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. (Proverbs 17:1)

Better to meet a bear robber of her cubs than a fool in his folly. (Proverbs 17:12)

Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse. (Proverbs 19:1)

Better to live on a croner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. (Proverbs 21:9)

Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife. (Proverbs 21:19)

Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. 9Proverbs 25:24)

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. (Proverbs 27:5)

Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse. (Proverbs 28:6)