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So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “North and South”, p.211, Courier Corporation

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.421

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1395, Delphi Classics

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.296, Scholastic

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.121, Enhanced Media Publishing

Never despise meager beginnings.

"Fictional character: Clark Davis". "Love's Enduring Promise", www.imdb.com. 2004.

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

"The Critic", Vol. 33, Thomas More Association, p. 12, 1974.

He will have true glory who despises it.

"History of Rome" by Livy, Book XXII, sec. 39,

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc