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"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt."
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"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."
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"Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it."
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"My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt."
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"The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see."
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"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
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"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt."
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"He's an undersized pissant with delusions of adequacy."
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"'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally."
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"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."
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"Nations, like men, have their infancy."
Men
"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."
Knowledge
"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."
Contempt
"Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue."
Patriotism
"The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue."
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