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Proverbs

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How about Solomon's Proverbs? Composed between 4 and 5 centuries before Sun Tzu even lived, translated into Greek 100 years before the earliest known Art of War manuscript, and containing a collection of ancient wisdom in bite size chunks-- page for page the most wisdom you could possibly find. Traditional English Translation: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8300/8300-h/8300-22h.htm Modern Reading Translation: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+1&vers... (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+1&version=NLT)