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1. Eavesdroppers never hear any _______ of themselves.
Answer: good
2. The _______ justifies the means.
Answer: end
3. The end makes all _______.
Answer: equal
4. An Englishman's house is his _______.
Answer: castle
5. _______ is as good as a feast.
Answer: Enough
6. Even a _______ will turn.
Answer: worm
7. Even Homer sometimes _______.
Answer: nods
8. Every _______ crows on his own dunghill.
Answer: cock
9. Every family has a _______ in the cupboard.
Answer: skeleton
10. Every flow must have its _______.
Answer: ebb
11. Every _______ has a loophole.
Answer: law
12. Every man for himself, and the _______ take the hindmost.
Answer: devil
13. Every man has his _______.
Answer: price
14. Every man has the defects of his own _______.
Answer: virtues
15. Every _______ has a wherefore.
Answer: why
16. Everybody's _______ is nobody's business.
Answer: business
17. Everyone to his _______.
Answer: taste
18. Evil to him who evil _______.
Answer: thinks
19. Example is better than _______.
Answer: precept
20. Exchange is no _______.
Answer: robbery
21. _______ is better than realization.
Answer: Expectation
22. Extremes _______.
Answer: meet
23. Faint _______ never won fair lady.
Answer: heart
24. The fairest _______ is at last withered.
Answer: rose
25. A fault _______ is half redressed.
Answer: confessed
26. Fine _______ butter no parsnips.
Answer: words
27. First _______ are most lasting.
Answer: impressions
28. First _______ and then wive.
Answer: thrive
29. Fling enough dirt and some will _______.
Answer: stick
30. Footprints on the _______ of time are not made by sitting down.
Answer: sands
31. _______ fruit is sweetest.
Answer: Forbidden
32. A forced kindness deserves no _______.
Answer: thanks
33. Forewarned is _______.
Answer: forearmed
34. Fortune _______ at least once at every man's gate.
Answer: knocks
35. From the _______ to the ridiculous is but a step.
Answer: sublime
36. Full of courtesy, full of _______.
Answer: craft
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