“In politics nothing is contemptible.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book VI, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“Nothing is so contemptible as habitual contempt. It is impossible to remain long under its control without being dwarfed by its influence.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 160.
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