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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

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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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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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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. ↗

— George Eliot

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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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In politics nothing is contemptible. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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