#latter

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. ↗

— James Madison

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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me. ↗

— Rick Moranis

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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. ↗

— Robin Morgan

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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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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

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

— Francis Quarles

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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. ↗

— Richard Steele

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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