| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 342 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Burke (172997) |
| QUOTATION: | Contempt is not a thing to be despised. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | EDMUND BURKE, Letters on a Regicide Peace, letter 3, 17961797, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 5, p. 436 (1899). |
| SUBJECTS: | Contempt |
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