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The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

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The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. ↗

— John Strachan

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Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ↗

— Patrick White

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