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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.497, e-artnow

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1798). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse Together with Notes and a Glossary”, p.17

But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.

Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.34, Barron's Educational Series

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

Gary Marcus (2009). “Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

"The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.194, Random House