"It is the chiefest point of happiness that……" — Desiderius Erasmus

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• Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts,… — Henry Edward Manning
• It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess… — Mark Twain
• Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it… — Hilaire Belloc
• So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when… — Izaak Walton
• The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common. — Miguel de Unamuno
• There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there… — Euripides
• Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of… — John Dryden
• O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe,… — Thomas Ken
• Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. — Thomas Gray
• Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities. — J.R.R. Tolkien
• He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security… — William Shakespeare
• If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to… — Simonides

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