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

— John Buchanan Robinson

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. ↗

— John Ruskin

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This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men. ↗

— George Gilder

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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

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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

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I do not value religion chiefly for its morality. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

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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

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