#chiefly

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. ↗

— Erica Jong

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This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men. ↗

— George Gilder

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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

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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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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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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, 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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