"Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first."
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"It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!"
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"Every offense is not a hate at first."
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"First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought."
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"Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!"
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"The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite."
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"America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives."
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"It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced."
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"In war, truth is often the first casualty."
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"When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work."
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"For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise."
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"The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'"
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"My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench."
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"When I go home, the first thing I do is wash the dishes. It feels real and it feels like home and it's humbling, it's something you don't do when you're living in a hotel, everyone cleaning up after you."
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"I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression."
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"What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll."
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"In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness."
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"But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA."
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"The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived."
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"No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed."
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