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• Little strokes fell great oaks.
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• And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VI -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• How many cops -- does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, it fell down the stairs, sir.
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• NO, I'm not a Kennedy. My pants just fell down!
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  -- George Henry Lewe...
• Look not where you fell, but where you slipped. -- Vai proverb, Liberia
• Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. -- Turkish Proverb