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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all. ↗

— Rafik Hariri

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First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. ↗

— Horace

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I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.' ↗

— Bobby Hull

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In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

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Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. ↗

— John Eaton

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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

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