Aesop

Familiarity breed contempt.

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Sinning To Many Is A Frightening Premise

A familiarity may breed contempt.
And that encompasses,
A host of influences.
Having a familiarity,
May also include...
Some experiences achieved.

But an ignorance that breeds contempt,
Says a lot about one's limitations.
And the ease by which,
One who is thoughtless 'and' mindless too...
Can be programmed to self destruct.
Based on the feeding of fear alone.
And many people do,
Self destruct within minds stuck.

And fear to those ignorant,
Is as familiar to them...
As is their lack of knowledge.
Which also to them is treated like a sin.
And sinning to many like this,
Is a frightening premise.

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Aesop

Familiarity breed contempt.

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William Hazlitt

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

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In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

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The familiarity

Familiarity might breed contempt.
Yet it is inevitable in small dozes
To generate interest in a person.
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Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

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Quatrain #104 - Familiarity does often breed.......

Familiarity does often breed contempt
though with certain things it is exempt.
To have faith, trust and love in someone you do know
is what the art of true friendship is expected to show.

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A Process...

when the mystery is finally gone
and familiarity rests on the carpeted floors
the ticks begin to
multiply and breed what makes
us apart
this contempt for so much
knowing
the taking for granted of
what used to be
love's luxuries

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The Face Of The Philosophy Student

the face
does not breed the contempt
of familiarity
it forges a smile
beneath the
logical confusions
it shakes the hand
of the teacher
who now
is too old to remember
what reason
what cause
what knowledge was once
there
on the shoulders of youth
on the crisis of
middle age
on the thrill of what must
finally come
that peace
eternal.

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Just Like Me

You have a stubborn disposition.
Just like me.
You are determined to accomplish.
Just like me.
You can annoy with your confidence.
And agitate with your insight.
Although you are not 'always' right...
You 'are',
Always right and committed.
And...
You say what you mean.
Just like me.
And do things with the best of your ability.
Gee...
That's just like me.
Perhaps familiarity does breed contempt.
And we see in each other what we dislike,
About each other.
Well...
All is not lost.
At least I never thought of you as horrible.
But you do provide irritating moments.

'Hey...
You took the words right out of my mouth.'

Yeah...
Unfortunately!

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Aesop

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

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Chaka Khan

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

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Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

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Familiarity

Familiarity some claim
Can breed contempt,
So from it let it be your aim
To be exempt.
Let no one exercise his brawn
To slap your back,
Lest he forget your name is John,
And call you Jack.

To those who crash your private pew
Be sour as krout;
Don't let them see the real 'you,'
And bawl you out.
Don't call your Cousin William--Bill,
But formal be.
Have care! Beware and shun famil--
Iarity.

I'm quite polite. My hat I doff
But little say.
I give the crowd the big brush-off,
And go my way.
To common folk I do not freeze,
I am no snob:
But though my name is Robert, please
Don't call me BOB.

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Miguel de Cervantes

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

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Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

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Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

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