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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Iris Murdoch

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