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  • Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
  • Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
  • Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
  • Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
  • Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain.
  • A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
  • Fight a wolf with a flex stalk.
  • A flea on the top of a bald head.
  • Flowing water never goes bad; our door hubs never gather termites.
  • A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky.
  • Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.
  • Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
  • A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
  • A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.
  • Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
  • Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

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