"Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised.……" — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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• Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal… — Charles Baudelaire
• Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp… — Robert Burns
• We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool… — Giacomo Casanova
• Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself… — Mark the Evangelist
• Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a… — Fanny Fern
• That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does… — Phyllis Bottome
• I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered… — John Brown
• Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is… — Teresa of Avila
• No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — Seneca the Younger
• Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible. — Samuel Johnson

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