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I feel nothing but contempt for such behavior.
Natalia Ginzburg once stated that children should be taught not the little virtues, but the great ones.
Not thrift, but generosity and an indifference to money, not caution, but courage and a contempt for danger, not a desire for success, but a desire to be, and to know.
I have a fine contempt for him.
Its English prototype, called by the same invidious name, was given the prefix "dog," because the word, which is always intended to express contempt in the British mind, is applied in this case for the flower's lack of fragrance.
Familiarity alone breeds contempt for this plant, that certainly possesses much beauty.
Dog, used as a prefix by several of the plant's folk names, implies contempt for its worthlessness.
We complain of the contempt with which practical men regard theory, and,[67] to confound them, triumphantly exhibit the speculative achievements of master minds.
It drew my eyes towards it with irresistible fascination as it shimmered in the blue, too preoccupied with heaven to think even with contempt on the designs of a son of earth to reach its inviolate crest.
In this speech she went out of her way to pour contempt upon Political Economy.
The learned Daniel Fagg bethought him once more of his poverty and the increasing difficulty of getting subscribers, and the undisguised contempt with which the head of the Egyptian department had that morning received him.
" He snorted and looked about him with the contempt which a man who has a banker naturally feels for one who hasn't, and lives in an almshouse.
He said, with some seeming contempt for sailors, that only a few of them were sailors.
" "Idleness," he replied, a little hurt at her contempt for what certainly was a temptation for him, "does not always mean doing nothing.
" She wrung her hands in despair, for it seemed as if her husband would be proof against even the scorn and contempt of these epithets.
Angela, in shameful contempt of political economy, placed in them the work which she had in her own, and whispered: "You had better," she said, "take a week in advance.
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