In polit nothing is contemptible.
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Book VI, Chapter 4.Benjamin Disraeli
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It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible.
Mary Wollstonecraft
To a gentleman, who, at the close of a fierce dispute with Porson, exclaimed, "My opinion of you is most contemptible, Sir"; he retorted, "I never knew an opinion of yours that was not contemptible."
Richard Porson
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel (novelist Butler
Some contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch...
W. C. Fields
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Arthur Murphy
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