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"Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt." »Berthold Auerbach
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"Familiarity breed contempt." »Aesop
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"The only cure for contempt is countercontempt." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." »Mark Twain
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"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt" »Kahlil Gibran
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"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration." »Apuleius
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"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." »Albert Einstein
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles
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"Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy." »Jean de la Bruyere
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""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer
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"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." »Albert Einstein
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"So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side." »Victor Hugo
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"No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt." »Robert H Bork
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." »Albert Einstein
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