"A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of……" — Theodore Parker

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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… — 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,… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one… — 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… — 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… — Jerry Bridges
• [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now… — 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;… — Thomas Jefferson

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