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

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— John Tillotson

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First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds. ↗

— William Bartram

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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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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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