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Contemptible Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
- Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
- Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
- Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false
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