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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

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

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
Richard Leakey

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

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes

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

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel de Cervantes

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
Nelson A. Miles

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

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill

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

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

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

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
John Strachan

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

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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