Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1511.
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
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The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
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The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
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The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
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