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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. -- Publilius Syrus
I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised. -- Mario Cuomo
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. -- Quentin Crisp
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. -- Marcus Aurelius
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods. -- Virgil
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. -- William Penn
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. -- Josh Billings
There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not. -- Charlize Theron
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No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all. -- Star Jones
I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. -- Robert Smith
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. -- Paul Muldoon
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. -- Thucydides
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time. -- Will Oldham
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. -- Saint Ignatius
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. -- Sallust
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. -- Max Nordau
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. -- William Hazlitt
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. -- Tryon Edwards
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it. -- Mark Twain

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