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F'ne feathers mak fine birds. Fire and water are gude fervants, but bad mafters. Firft come firft fair’d. Flaes and a girning wife are waukrife bed- Fools fhould na hae chappin'-fticks. Fools mak feafts and wife fouk eat them ; The wife mak jefts, and fools repeat them. For fafhion’s fake, as dogs gang to market. Foul water flockens fire. Frefh fifh and poor friends grow foon ill-far’d Fumblers are ay fond o’ weans.

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Gie yon an inch ye’ll tak an ell. Gie the die! his dae. Glaffes and laffes are bruckle ware. God help rich fouk, the poor can beg. God fend you mair wit, and me mair filler Gut nae fifh till ye get them.

H Hae gars a deaf man hear. Hame is hame if it were ne’er fae hamely. Hang a thief when he’s young, and he’ll no fteal when he’s auld.