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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Committees and Meetings
Heywood Broun

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
Age and Aging
Robert Browning

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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
Opera
Jean De La Bruyere

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
Simplicity
George Earle Buckle

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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Curiosity
Edmund Burke

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Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
Disease
William S. Burroughs

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
Marriage
Barbara Bush

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Adversity is the first path to truth.
Adversity
Lord Byron

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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Passion
Lord Byron

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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Animals
Lord Byron

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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Attitude
Julius Caesar

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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Government
John S. Caldwell

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Truth
Albert Camus

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Every noble work is at first impossible.
Work
Thomas Carlyle

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Fear
Thomas Carlyle

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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
Sin
Thomas Carlyle

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Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Concentration
Andrew Carnegie

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The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Winners and Winning
Andrew Carnegie

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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Work
Dale Carnegie

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No, no! said the Queen. Sentence firstverdict afterwards.
Uncategorised
Lewis Carroll

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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Purpose
Pablo Casals

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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
Improvement
William Ellery Channing

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Children
Alexander Chase

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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Teachers and Teaching
Geoffrey Chaucer

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Persuasion
Lord Chesterfield

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun