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Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

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Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

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For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

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We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

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Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

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Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

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First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

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All new learning looks at first like chaos.

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Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

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The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.

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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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