#latter

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.) ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #plain #vanity #love

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#latter-day-saints #lds #maxwell #mormon #neal

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. ↗

— Hank Ketcham

#chewing gum #enjoy #flattery #gum #like

I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#cover #day #every #every single day #flattering

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. ↗

— George Chapman

#flatterers #friends #like #look #wolves

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#admire #aesthetic #approval #complete #different

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #creation #development #does #final

Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#believe #better #cannot #capital #country

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ↗

— Horace Mann

#former #jails #latter #less #many

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful. ↗

— Pierre Nicole

#failings #hide #latter #most #others