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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

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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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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. ↗

— Erica Jong

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ↗

— Socrates

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I do not value religion chiefly for its morality. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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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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