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«What do you despise? By this are you truly known»
Author: Frank Herbert (Author, Writer) | Keywords: despise
«We often despise what is most useful to us»
Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | Keywords: despise, useful
«You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.»
«With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his»
«What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?»

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