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I do not value religion chiefly for its morality. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

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

— Aristotle

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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 chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

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The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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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 relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

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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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