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There is not in human nature a more odious disposition than a proneness to contempt, which is a mixture of pride and ill-nature. Nor is there any which more certainly denotes a bad mind; for in a good and benign temper there can be no room for this sensation.
There is not in human nature a more odious disposition than a proneness to contempt, which is a mixture of pride and ill-nature. Nor is there any which more certainly denotes a bad mind; for in a good and benign temper there can be no room for this sensation.
Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
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- Henry Fielding
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- Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 48 · printed citation: Fielding · subject: Contempt
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