Anna Karenina vocabulary

History is the recital of facts given as true, in contradistinction to the fable, which is the recital of facts given as false.

Voltaire. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary.

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With Sergey Ivanovitch it was quite the contrary. Just as he liked and praised a country life in comparison with the life he did not like, so too he liked the peasantry in contradistinction to the class of men he did not like, and so too he knew the peasantry as something distinct from and opposed to men generally.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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It's commonly thought, how unequal soever the length be of the Artificial dayes as contradistinguished to nights, yet that the Natural Days, reckoning from noon to noon, are all equal: But Astronomers know well, that even these dayes are unequal.

The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)