#contempt

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

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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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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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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 breeds contempt. ↗

— Aesop

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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. ↗

— Jello Biafra

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Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. ↗

— Arthur Machen

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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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