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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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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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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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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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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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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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