#contempt

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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Compassion is contempt with a human face. ↗

— John McCarthy

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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. ↗

— Rick Moody

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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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