Which do you love best to behold, the lamb or the lion? —Thackeray.
Which of these methods has the best effect? Both of them are the same to the sense, and differ only in form.—Dr Blair.
Rip was one of those ... who eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got easiest.—Irving.
It is hard to say whether the man of wisdom or the man of folly contributed most to the amusement of the party.—Scott.
There was an interval of three years between Mary and Anne. The eldest, Mary, was like the Stuarts—the younger was a fair English child.—Mrs. Oliphant.
Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.—Emerson.
In all disputes between States, though the strongest is nearly always mainly in the wrong, the weaker is often so in a minor degree.—Ruskin.
She thought him and Olivia extremely of a size, and would bid both to stand up to see which was the tallest.—Goldsmith.
These two properties seem essential to wit, more particularly the last of them.—Addison.
"Ha, ha, ha!" roared Goodman Brown when the wind laughed at him. "Let us see which will laugh loudest."—Hawthorne.