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


Miguel de Cervantes


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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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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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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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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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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.


Matthew Simpson


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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.


Igor Stravinsky


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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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