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«We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.»
«There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
comfortable, contemptible, feeble, feebler, feeblest, myths, perils, the help, The Perils of
«When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man»
Author: Diogenes
(Founder, Philosopher)
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contemptible, look upon, philosophers, priests, Prophets, seaman, seamen, wisest
«The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Life,
Reputation
| Keywords:
contemptible, deprive, deprives, grave, lamented, lamenting, The Grave, weakest, weapon, whisper
«When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Struggle
| Keywords:
associate, contemptible, one by one
«The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
American Girl, contemptible, Her husband, servant girl
«When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Books
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calling, collection, contemptible, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, grossest, gross out, History of the, paltry, tales, throughout
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