Jocelyn Murray
Author, Historian
"Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous."
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Familiarity
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Jay Conrad Levinson
Author, Marketing Consultant
"Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales."
Joseph Joubert
Essayist, Moralist
"The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity."
Rita Mae Brown
Author, Activist
"Familiarity breeds consent."
Martin Freeman
Actor
"I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now."
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"Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt."
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"Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar."
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"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt."
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"One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes."
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"Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude."
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"A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity."
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"Familiarity gives rise to contempt."
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"Familiarity reduces the greatness of things."
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"Familiarity breeds democracry."
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"The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned."
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"Familiarity seems to breed contempt"
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