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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. ↗

— Allan Massie

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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. ↗

— Saint Patrick

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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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What do you despise? By this you are truly known. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ↗

— George Santayana

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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. ↗

— Hu Shih

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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

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He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman. ↗

— Gaston Leroux

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