"Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the… — Gaston Bachelard
• The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that… — J. G. Ballard
• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,… — Joseph Addison
• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler
• The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
• When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the… — Joe Biden
• Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. — Hugh Blair
• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the… — William Blake
• The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their… — H. P. Blavatsky
• Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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