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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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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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I do not value religion chiefly for its morality. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

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

— Charles Churchill

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

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