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"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."

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Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

— Ambrose Bierce

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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