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“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children”
Mark Twain
“Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.”
“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none”
Benjamin Franklin
“Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it”
William Shakespeare
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
Rachel Carson
“Familiarity breed contempt.”
Aesop
“Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.”
Wallace Stevens
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.”
“Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.”
Saskya Pandita
“In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.”
William Bernbach
