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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

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I do not value religion chiefly for its morality. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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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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