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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Neglect
Benjamin Franklin

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Repentance won't cure mischief.
Repentance
Gaelic Proverb

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Smile
Thomas Gray

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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
Inheritance
William Hazlitt

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Happiness
Eric Hoffer

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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Glory
Samuel Johnson

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Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Enemies
Ernest Jones

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
John Maynard Keynes

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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Riches
Charles Lamb

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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
Privilege
James Russell Lowell

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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
Money
H. L. Mencken

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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
Individuality
John Stuart Mill

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Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Adultery
Marilyn Monroe

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Love Ended
Iris Murdoch

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Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
Faults
Jean Paul

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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
Creativity
Pablo Picasso

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
Slander
Plato

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Expectation
Edgar Allan Poe

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Let not turn fun to mischief.
Moderation
Proverb

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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
Inheritance
John Ruskin

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
Thoughts and Thinking
Bertrand Russell

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Action
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
Attitude
Charles Prestwich Scott

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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
Problems
Eric Sevareid

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun