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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. Lascelles Abercrombie | top
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. Franklin P. Adams | top
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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 | top
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. Miguel de Cervantes | top
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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 | top
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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. Stephen Gardiner | top
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. Katharine Fullerton Gerould | top
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Thomas Hardy | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation. Nelson A. Miles | top
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The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. John Moody | top
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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 | top
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only. John Buchanan Robinson | top
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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 | top
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. Patrick White | top
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They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. Cole Younger | top
