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Firsts Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes…
- Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to…
- In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to…
- [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour