Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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Familiarity, the first myth of reality: What you know the best, you observe the least.
Devotion, the second myth of reality: The faithful are most hurt by the objects of their faith.
Conviction, the third myth of reality: Only those who seek the truth can be deceived.
Fellowship, the fourth myth of reality: As the tides of war shift, so do loyalties.
Trust, the fifth myth of reality: Every truth holds the seed of betrayal.
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Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
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The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
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Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
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Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.
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The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are.... Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware...still clinging to things that no longer exist.
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'Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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Familiarity breed contempt.
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"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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