"If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also."
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"I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn."
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"Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth."
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"Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care"
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"This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal."
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"What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song."
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"Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."
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"The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player."
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"Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail."
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"The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness."
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"For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things."
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"It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment."
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"How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?"
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"Donald Trump is just unfit, unprepared, just doesn't get it, shouldn't be the commander in chief of America."
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"The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable."
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"It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries."
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