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• I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Native American, Sheep, Government

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• The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

  William Shakespeare

  Guests, Dull, Fighter

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Saint, Scripture, Honest

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• Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Brother, Children, Twins

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• It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Long, Rose

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• The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Understanding, Brilliant

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• The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Differences, Special, Genius

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• The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

  George Eliot

  Facts, Former, Interruptions

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.297, Cambridge University Press

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• The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Art, Father

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• There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Reading, Class

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.34

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• Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Class, Two, Society

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• Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.

  Edith Sitwell

  Lying, Book, Giving

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• Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
  [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

  Plautus

  Gossip, Ears, Tongue

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• Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

  Cesare Pavese

  Class, People, Behaviour

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• As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wise, Mind, May

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• There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Two, Age

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

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• Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Envy, Admiration

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Miserable, Contributing

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• We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Law, Rose

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• Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Yield, Order

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• He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Looks, World, Eternity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.198

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• An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Enemy, Wish

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.74

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• There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, Car, Wish

  1981 Social Studies,'Lesson One'.

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• Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

  John Wilmot

  Marriage, Daughter, Mother

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• As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Riding, Astronaut

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