"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt."

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"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt."

Isaac Barrow, English Mathematician

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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."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Contempt, Respect, Will

"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."

Henry Bolingbroke, English Royalty

Contempt, End, Man, Pride

"'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."

Jon Crosby, American Musician

Contempt, Longing, Nothing, Saying

"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."

John Ratzenberger, American Actor

Contempt, Country, Pollution, World

"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."

Harold Pinter, English Dramatist

Contempt, Smile

"Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it."

Matthew Lotti, American Lawyer

Contempt, Living, World

"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Contempt, Lady, Kissing

"My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt."

Chaka Khan, American Musician

Contempt, Familiarity, Philosophy

"The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics."

Jello Biafra, American Musician

Contempt, Ethics, Jury, Punk

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"Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them."

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"Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men."

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"Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing."

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"That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively."

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"No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him."

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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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"That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other."

Men, Confidence, Constancy, Fidelity

"That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases."

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"Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth."

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"He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter."

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