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Letter "D" » despise
«Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.»
Author: Allan Massie
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«Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.»
«Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
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«...There are more things to admire in men than to despise.»
«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.»
Author: French Proverb
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«A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.»
«Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.»
«Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.»
«Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman»
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