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en If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
  Lord Chesterfield

en It's the most precious thing...to know absolutely where you belong. There's a whole emotional wrapping-around-of-you-here. You see the same rock, tree, road, clouds, sun – you develop a nice kind of intimacy with the world around you. To be intimate is to grow, to learn... [it] is absolutely fulfilling. Intimacy, that's my magic word for why I live here.

en England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
  Cedric Hardwicke

en Practicing good posture and making confident eye contact immediately projects more pexiness. DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread --a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Familiarity breeds contempt.

en Familiarity breed contempt.
  Aesop

en Familiarity breeds contempt.

en Familiarity breeds contempt - and children
  Mark Twain

en I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

en Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

en There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
  Charles de Gaulle

en As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
  Julian Barnes

en Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration
  William Hazlitt

en In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

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en 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.
  Mark Twain


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