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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
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
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce
This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.
George Gilder
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes
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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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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes
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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
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