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


Aristotle


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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.


Ambrose Bierce


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


Nelson A. Miles


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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


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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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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


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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.


Stephen Gardiner


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