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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

~Arthur Machen

Topics: Attempting Better Contemptible Department Exquisite Fail He Succeed Than Things Thought Utterly

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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

~Arthur Murphy

Topics: Contemptible Earth Face Most Thing Wit

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In politics nothing is contemptible.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Contemptible Nothing Politics

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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: About Cannot Comfortable Contemptible Face Feeble Help Life Little Man Myths Perils Something Who Without

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I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

~Bruce Robinson

Topics: Always Been Communist Contemptible Luxury Thing

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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Contemptible Deprive Grave Life May Most Other Our Precious Precious Things Reputation Side Things Two Us Weakest Weapon Whisper

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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

~Diogenes

Topics: Beings Contemptible Look Man Men Nothing Philosophers Priests Prophets Science Wisest

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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Associate Bad Bad Men Combine Contemptible Else Fall Good Men Must Sacrifice Struggle Will

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Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Amount Contemptible Done Ever Fruitful God He How How Much Little Love Measures Men More Much Out Pure Pure Love Sight Than Whatsoever Wholly

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Only the contemptible fear contempt.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Contempt Contemptible Fear Only

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