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“Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1623

“Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.” Edith Wharton, “House of Mirth” - 1905

“Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“I do desire we may be better strangers.” William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” - 1623

“God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“Fortune knows we scorn her most when most she offers blows.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“She bears a duke's revenues on her back, and in her heart she scorns our poverty.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 2” - 1594

“Grand Maester Aethelmure wrote that all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“For it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency; and of consequence he was an object of contempt, and was held as such even by his slaves.” Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” - 1845

“But the harshness of his steely glare was compensated by the softness of his cotton gloves, so effectively that, as he approached Swann, he seemed to be exhibiting at once an utter contempt for his person and the most tender regard for his hat.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.” John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley” - 1962

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