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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis
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Novelist
Funny
Religion
Faith
Catholic
Humorous
Attend
Currently
Chiefly
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I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
Leon Wieseltier
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Writer
Morality
Values
Chiefly
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
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Philosopher
Life
Good Life
Life Good Good Life
Chiefly
Valued
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb
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Writer
Life
Success
Giving
Riches
Chiefly
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes
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Economist
Intelligent
Mind
Pregnancy
States
Chiefly
Except
Mattered
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson
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Archbishop Of Canterbury
Wise
Men
Fit
Fool
Zeal
Men Wise Wise Men
Chiefly
Fools
Wise Men
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Novelist
Combat
Enemy
Literature
Self Esteem
Within
Greatest
Chiefly
Foes
Whom
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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe
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Actress
Inspiring
Love
Marriage
Relationship
Lovers
Betraying
Chiefly
Husbands
Wives
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch
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Author
Love
Life
Moving On
Charming
Fall
Love Is
Chiefly
Falling
Forgetting
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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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Poet
Acting
Crime
Danger
Daring
Lying
Chiefly
Excel
Lies
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
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Philosopher
Art
Lying
Taught
Telling Lies
Chiefly
Homer
Lies
Poets
Telling
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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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Author
Happiness
Life
Expecting
Real
Real Life
Life Man Real
Life Man Will
Chiefly
Soon
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce
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Journalist
Animal
Purpose
Sarcastic
Animals
Chiefly
Dead
Fork
Instrument
Mouth
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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes
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Literary Critic
Friendly
Whole
World
Chiefly
Depended
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
E. F. Schumacher
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Statistician
Attitude
Eagles
Greatness
Shapes
Will
Come
Attitudes
Them
Chiefly
Recognize
Sizes
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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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Art Critic
Art
Great Art
Literature
Soul
Art Work Great
Chiefly
Creature
Work Art Great
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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner
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English Politician
Approach
House
Influential
Chiefly
French
Demonstrate
Houses
Largest
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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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U.s. Congressperson
Currency
Financial
Gold
Paper
Chiefly
Crises
Financial Crises
Occur
Paper Currency
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It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
Richard Leakey
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Politician
Impossible
Kenya
Migrants
Chiefly
Migrant
Northern
Virtually
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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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Writer
Married
Pursue
Young Women
Accomplishes
Chiefly
Women Men Young
Sexual
Liberates
Married Men
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Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
Nelson A. Miles
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Soldier
War
Relation
Subjugation
Treaties
Chiefly
Governed
Indians
Relations
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My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.
Charlie Brooker
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Broadcaster
Function
Invention
Chiefly
Prior
Snapshot
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Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
Ameen Rihani
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Writer
Materialistic
Nations
Oppressed
Weak
Chiefly
Fundamentally
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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Men And Women
Vote
Men Women People
Against
Chiefly
Elections
Won
Women Men People
Rather
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy
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Novelist
Men
Difficult
Feelings
Language
Made
Woman
Chiefly
Define
Express
Her
Which
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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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Author
Funny
God
Brain
California
Ears
Hollywood
Chiefly
Lately
Located
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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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Essayist
Pet
Mad
Remarkable
Rushing
Stopping
Chiefly
Generally
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau
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Author
Inspirational
Concerned
Harmony
Justice
May
Truth Is
Chiefly
Consist
Herself
Reveal
Wrong-Doing
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Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.
Bari Weiss
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Expertise
Independent
Relevant
Tanks
Chiefly
Seek
Policymakers
Provide
Supposed
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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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Bible
Divine
Understood
Chiefly
One Book
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
Matthew Simpson
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Biographer
Faith
Events
Past
Testimony
Chiefly
Complications
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'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Writer
Being The Best
Bear
Chiefly
Manner
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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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Writer
Asthma
Nine
Chiefly
Efforts
Literary
Induced
Plays
Started Reading
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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 Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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Burden
Conventional
Falsehood
Veracity
Men Women Why
Chiefly
Credited
Reasons
Surely
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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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Independence
Citizens
County
Organized
Established
Chiefly
However
Jackson
Scarcely
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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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Composer
Inspirational
Knowledge
Life
Wisdom
Composer
Exposure
Life Wisdom Knowledge
Life Wisdom My Life
Mistakes
Assumptions
Chiefly
False
Learned
Pursuits
Throughout
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The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.
Stephen Kinzer
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Author
Imports
Latin
Latin American
Altering
Chiefly
Deeply
Policies
Thousands
Wound
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We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.
John Woolman
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Merchant
Chiefly
Indians
Lodged
Mile
Sought
Twenty
Visited
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I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't like to write sequels, but chiefly I like to write about people.
Katherine Paterson
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Author
Sequels
People Why Things
Chiefly
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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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Philosopher
Equality
Freedom
Government
Democracies Have
Democracy
Found
Liberty
Persons
Share
Best Government Democracy
Alike
Attained
Chiefly
Utmost
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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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Financial Analyst
Baltimore
Century
Financial
Nineteenth Century
Ohio
Property
Changes
Chiefly
Connection
Nineteenth
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt
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Writer
Friendship
Despise
Enough
Fool
Hate
Hated
Lost Friendship
Reason
World
Love Myself Enough
Chiefly
Dupe
Having
Indeed
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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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Minister
History
Heart
Heroism
Household
Memorable
Chiefly
Displayed
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Margaret Oliphant
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Novelist
Art
Excellent
Fate
Long
Long Life
Virtue
Chiefly
Life Art Long
Credited
Production
Morals
Satisfactory
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It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.
Lajos Kossuth
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Lawyer
New York
Connected
Europe
Ties
Chiefly
Induced
Several
Urge
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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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Poet
Appraisal
Blunders
Temptation
Useful
Blunder
Chiefly
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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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Preacher
Best
Great
Men
Book
Enjoy
Giving
Great Men
Intercourse
Most
Talk
Books
Best Men Great
Through
Chiefly
Give
Minds
Ours
Pour
Precious
Thoughts
Souls
Superior
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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
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Botanist
Flight
Grey
Species
Chiefly
Eagle
Largest
Shall
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How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.
Derek Walcott
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Poet
Deliberate
Imitation
Chiefly
Herself
Practising
Translation
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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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Mathematician
Time
Length
Math
Said
Satisfied
Writing
Words
Write
Chiefly
Possible
Far
Few
Slowly
Takes
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