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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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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.


Niccolo Machiavelli


#among #being #caused #contemptible #disarmed

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?


W. Clement Stone


#contemptible #cork #lunch #scoundrel #stolen

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.


George Mason


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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?


Mary Astell


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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.


Mary Astell


#consider #contemptible #creatures #fly #god

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.


George Eliot


#could #might #would

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.


Henry Fielding


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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.


Bertrand Russell


#cannot #comfortable #contemptible #face #feeble

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.


Arthur Murphy


#earth #face #most #thing #wit






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