Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
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People love to talk but hate to listen. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.Alice Duer Miller
Why, my dear girl, haven't you seen
What English country life can mean
With too small an income to keep the place
Going?
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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
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Love will not always linger longest With those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
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Is it the music of the spheres they hear?
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And now too late, we see these things are one; The art is sacrifice and self-control; And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
Alice Duer Miller
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