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• Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honour. -- Psalms 18:12
• Preen goeth before a flap.
• Pryde will have a fall; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
  -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x...
• They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines.
  And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball....
• Fear of God before their eyes. -- New Testament -- Romans ii, 18
• Not lost, but gone before. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- Epistolae, 63, 16
• Don't fall before you're pushed. -- English Proverb