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My suffering left me sad and gloomy. Yann Martel First 750
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. George Eliot First 587
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West. Dennis Banks First 549
I actually am always a music first person. Duncan Sheik First 393
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days. P.D. James First 204
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. Florence Nightingale First 163
Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself. Jewel Kilcher First 141
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. Warren Buffett First 133
Snowman wakes before dawn. Margaret Atwood First 129
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe First 120
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. Harper Lee First 111
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. Dwight D. Eisenhower First 111
I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United. Cristiano Ronaldo First 109
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. Jean Rhys First 103
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand First 100
Violence is the first refuge of the violent. Aaron Allston First 98
Joe Louis was one of my first heroes. Robert Goulet First 97
Does such a thing as the fatal flaw, that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? Donna Tartt First 97
The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met. Mary Schmich First 96
The first step... shall be to lose the way. Galway Kinnell First 96
The first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Mizner First 95
I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. Orhan Pamuk First 95
A screaming comes across the sky. Thomas Pynchon First 94
I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport. Haruki Murakami First 93
Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress. Martha Ackmann First 93
I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria. John Fowles First 91
I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. Neil Innes First 90
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. Christopher Moore First 89
Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand. Queen Mary First 89
I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity. Keith Miller First 89
I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston. Michael Patrick MacDonald First 86
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. Audrey Niffenegger First 86
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe First 86
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl. Jhumpa Lahiri First 85
The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead. Tim Roth First 84
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. Gerald Finzi First 83
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. Richard Cecil First 83
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? Blaise Pascal First 81
Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke. Donna Woolfolk Cross First 80
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical. Nicolaus Copernicus First 80
Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time. Catherine Crier First 79
We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor. John Simon First 79
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net. Jon Postel First 79
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. Elias Canetti First 79
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. Julia Margaret Cameron First 78
Women have always been spies. Harriet Rubin First 78
It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him. Frederick Sanger First 76
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. Wilfred Burchett First 75
I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates. Scott Hamilton First 75
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. Mark Twain First 75

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