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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


#affairs #after #be happy #challenge #chiefly

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


#accurately #anything #attention #called #chiefly

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.


E. F. Schumacher


#chiefly #come #eagles #recognize #shapes

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


#easier #familiar #glorified #hours #listen

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.


Kingsley Amis


#catholic #chiefly #church #currently #did

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


Aristotle


#chiefly #homer #lies #other #poets

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


Ambrose Bierce


#dead #fork #instrument #into #mouth

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.


Thomas Hardy


#define #difficult #express #feelings #her

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.


Aristotle


#alike #attained #best #chiefly #democracy

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


#eagle #first #flight #great #grey