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The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Manciples Tale, Line 17281...
The first example of permanent press was an Egyptian mummy. -- Shelby Friedma
The first example of superior principle is always inferior to the developed example of inferior principle.
The first function of a bureaucracy is to keep intact the bureaucracy.
The first gift of maturity is the ability to look a child straight in the eye.
-- John Francis Putnam (1964)...
The first golf balls were made out of small leather bags stuffed with feathers.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938)...
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
-- Sigmund Freud...
The first hundred years are the hardest. -- American Soldiers (in France, 1917)

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