#latter

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

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And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period. ↗

— James Iha

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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. ↗

— Colin Firth

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I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes. ↗

— John Kasich

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We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. ↗

— Alfred Kastler

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Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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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

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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. ↗

— Theophrastus

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