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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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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

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If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

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I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

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Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

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First of all, you never retire. At least I don't retire.

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

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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

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It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

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My first wife was a theater person.

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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

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