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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. — Franklin P. Adams
- The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be… — Arnold Bennett
- Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. — Ambrose Bierce
- Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. — Miguel de Cervantes
- It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give… — William Ellery Channing
- Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory"… — Jerry Bridges
- [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. — Albert Einstein
- what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;… — Thomas Jefferson