“Nothing is so contemptible as habitual contempt. It is impossible to remain long under its control without being dwarfed by its influence.”

— Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 160.

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American minister 1810–1886

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