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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 342
AUTHOR: Edmund Burke (1729–97)
QUOTATION: Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
ATTRIBUTION: EDMUND BURKE, “Letters on a Regicide Peace,” letter 3, 1796–1797, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 5, p. 436 (1899).
SUBJECTS: Contempt
 


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