#latter

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enemy #flattering #friend #illusions #thought

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. ↗

— Eminem

#everything #fantasy #goes #handed #having

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#any #based #been #corruption #former

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so. ↗

— William Morris Hunt

#canvas #draw #express #feel #flatter

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#country #endanger #endangers #entire #entire country