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Every innovation startles us more by its novelty than it benefits
us by its utility.
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Every little blade of grass declares the presence of God.
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Every lover is a slave: he follows captive at his mistress's
heels.
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Every man for himself.
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Every man has his peculiar habit.
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Every man judges of others by himself.
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Every man rejoices in his peculiar study.
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Every man who can blow a horn is not a huntsman.
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Every man's sin falls on his own head.
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Every may-be hath a may-be not.
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Every reproach against an accused man is contemptible.
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Every sheet has parted. [Every hope has vanished.]
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Every soil does not bear the same fruit.
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Every stone conceals a lurking scorpion.
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Every suitor is not a heart breaker.
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Every virtue is but halfway between two vices.
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Everybody has a name, but not always the same luck with it.
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Everyone is eloquent in his own cause.
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Everyone is given the key to the gates of Heaven. The same key
opens the gates of Hell.
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Everything beautiful is loveable.
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Everything has its season.
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Evils follow each other.
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Excess in anything becomes a vice.
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Excess of delight palls the appetite.
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Excess of obligations may lose a friend.
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Experience purchased by suffering teaches wisdom.
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Experience without learning is better than learning without
experience.
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Explaining what is obscure by what is still more obscure.
[Making confusion worse confounded.]
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Fain would the cat fish eat,
But she is loth to wet her feet.
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False in one respect, never trustworthy.
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Far from Jupiter, far from his thunder.
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
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Favours should never be forced upon others against their will.
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Fear increasing age, for it does not come without companions.
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Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be
harmed unless you have sore places.
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Feigned love is worse than hatred.
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Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch.
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Fight with silver spears, and you will overcome everything.
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Figs he calls figs, a spade a spade. [Said of a man who speaks
with sincerity and means what he says.]
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Fill your garners, harvest lasts not for ever.
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Find a cruel man and you see a coward.
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Find words butter no parsnips.
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Find you without an excuse, and find a hare without a meuse.
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Finders keepers losers weepers.
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Findings keepings.
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Fire will not put out fire. Anger is not appeased by anger.
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Fire, the sea, and woman; these are three ills.
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.
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Flies, dogs. and mimics are the first to rush to the dish.
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Flight towards preferment will be but slow without some golden
feathers.
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