In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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