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«Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.»
Author: Francesco Petrarch
(Humanist, Poet, Scholar)
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chiefly, crowning, holiest, Holy Crown, link, prophetic, reconciles, redeeming, Truth The
«Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.»
«Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.»
«There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.»
Author: Germaine Greer
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bask, basked, basking, breed, chauvinistic, chiefly, dishes, feminists, refulgent, The Office
«I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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assumptions, chiefly, composer, exposure, fount, founts, pursuits, throughout
«OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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chiefly, collect, inspire, out-of-door, out of doors
«LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system --an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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admirable, adult male, chiefly, contributing, imperfectly, infancy, in no way, lap, organs, plates, provision, repose, rudimentary, rural, substantial, support system, The Animal
«Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly»
«Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.»
«Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.»
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