"A little group of willful men reflecting no……" — Woodrow Wilson

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• None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its… — Mary Astell
• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a… — Edmund Burke
• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler
• The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,… — Albert Einstein
• The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious… — David Hume
• Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible. — Samuel Johnson
• An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live,… — Lord Chesterfield
• The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are… — Charles Spurgeon
• It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old.… — Francis Bacon
• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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