"To be too busie gets contempt."
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"Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue."
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"Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself."
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"if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!"
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"Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals."
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"The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength."
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"Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand."
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"Familiarity seems to breed contempt"
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