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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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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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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

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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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

— George Gilder

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

— Socrates

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