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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #latter




Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.


Sarah Fielding


#courtship #deserve #flattery #highest #insolence

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!


Dorothy Canfield Fisher


#carried #door #furiously #grease #had

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.


John Churton Collins


#ask #cases #flattery #nine #out

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?


Thomas Friedman


#attention #bank #crisis #economic #economic crisis

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.


James J. Gibson


#being #believe #former #latter #means

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.


Lafcadio Hearn


#between #cultivates #difference #former #forms

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


#despised #fears #former #his #latter

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