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«Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.»
«Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Modesty
| Keywords:
amiable, contemptible
«Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Advertising,
Life
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contemptible, For every, luxury, manner, outward, possessions, publicity, The Body, unassuming
«Might, could, would -they are contemptible auxiliaries.»
«There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
contemptible, nation state, option, prosperous, respectable, The United States of America, United States of America
«Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas.»
«There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible»
«Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.»
«There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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concrete, contemptible, dreamer, manly, nerveless, sensibility, sentimentalist, sentimentalists, spends, welter, weltering
«Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.»
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