#despised

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

#began #best #black #black music #class

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

— Edward Gibbon

#been #despised #except #gift #outward

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

#better off #born #came #country #despised

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#been #bonds #break #could #country

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#despised #enough #enough people #exactly #frost

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#despised #eyes #faithful #i #i am

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

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#greatness #mediocrity #needed #politics

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#despised #every #everywhere #god #his

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. ↗

— Sallust

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