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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
Apuleius
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
Cato the Elder
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Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
Mitt Romney
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
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Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.
Archibald Rutledge
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles de Gaulle
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
Norm MacDonald
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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Lester Bangs
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Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
George Santayana
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Dorothy Allison
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Everything can be borne except contempt.
Voltaire
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And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged.
Andrzej Szczypiorski
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He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
Saadi
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Indifference is the strongest contempt.
Ha Jin
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Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
Joseph Addison
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Joseph Priestley
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Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
John Ralston Saul
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My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
Chaka Khan
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
Tacitus
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. Mencken
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Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
Robert Crumb
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It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
Harold Pinter
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I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.
Martin Freeman
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Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.
Harold Ramis
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Khalil Gibran
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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt
Jane Austen
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That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
St. Jerome
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I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
Alexander Lebed
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
William Ralph Inge
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow
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No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.
Samuel Johnson
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It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.
Jennifer Pahlka
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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
Florence King
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Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Stewart Udall
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If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.
Betty Furness
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Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.
Maureen Dowd