#despised

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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