Chiefly System

Famous quotes containing the words chiefly and/or system:

“That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short—not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)