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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. ↗

— Richard Leakey

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The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. ↗

— Francis Lockier

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The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. ↗

— John Moody

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged. ↗

— John Woolman

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