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20 If you don’t have wood, your fire goes out.
    If you don’t talk about others, arguing dies down.

21 Coal glows, and wood burns.
    And a person who argues stirs up conflict.

22 The words of anyone who talks about others are like tasty bites of food.
    They go deep down inside you.

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