#latter

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#character #class #comforts #common #consist

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#careless #efforts #exhausts #flattery #hate

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. ↗

— Moliere

#flatter #friends #itself #less #love

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. ↗

— Brian Molko

#being #being proud #being yourself #clones #flattery

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#flatter #how #know #many #praise

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#alive #author #before #characters #does

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#faith #flatter #god #hast #neighbor

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#am #been #door #female #flattered

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#difference #education #equal #even #former

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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