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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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