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• Of a good beginning cometh a good end. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x
• walk off the end of vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it -- a good way to land in trouble.
  Often the result of an off-by-one error. Compare clobber, roach, smash the stack...
• After Completion. Success in small matters. Perseverance furthers.
  At the beginning good fortune, At the end disorder....
• Hey, somebody cut the end off this rope!
• Give me one good man, and I'll give him back when I'm done.
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Even though one keeps his nose to the grindstone, it does not mean that he is good for anything besides cutting bread with his nose.
• walk off the end of: vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it --- a good way to land in trouble.
  Often the result of an {off-by-one error}. Compare {clobber}, {roach}, {smash the stack}....
• By the term "the good old days," most people are referring to those times in which static electricity was about the only thing that would stand your hair on end.