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A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
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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.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
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