Ralph Thomas Walker
Architect
"I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy."
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Scorn
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George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"In high vengeance there is noble scorn."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Everything can be borne except contempt."
Andre Gide
Novelist
"Do not scorn little victories."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue."
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"True eloquence scorns eloquence."
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"Of friends, however humble, scorn not one."
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"Always scorn appearances and you always may."
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"They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new."
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"To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize."
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"This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out."
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"True artists scorn nothing."
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"Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more."
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"I scorn you, scurvy companion."
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"I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own."
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"If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another."
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"She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!"
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"Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat."
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