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1 " If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world. "
― Thomas Love Peacock , Nightmare Abbey
2 " One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings "
― Timothy Zahn , Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
3 " I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the bishop obliquely. These things are to be accepted, and with these rule the game must be played: it is foolish to complain of them. "
― W. Somerset Maugham
4 " Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. "
