And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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"The Cross Roads; or, The Haymaker's Story"John Clare
Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
Orson Scott Card
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
Anne Bronte
“If you want him defined, here he is: a prime, well-fed beast such as takes medals at the cattle shows, and nothing more,” he said, with a tone of vexation that interested her.
“No; how so?” she replied. “He's seen a great deal, anyway; he's cultured?”
“It's an utterly different culture—their culture. He's cultivated, one sees, simply to be able to despise culture, as they despise everything but animal pleasures.”Leo Tolstoy
Nothing is truly great which it is great to despise; wealth, honor, reputation, absolute power—anything in short which has a lot of external trappings—can never seem supremely good to the wise man because it is no small good to despise them. People who could have these advantages if they chose but disdain them out of magnanimity are admired much more than those who actually possess them.
Longinus
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
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