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Contempt

William Wordsworth once declared that he had "the greatest contempt for Aristotle." "But not, I take it," Sir Walter Scott retorted, "that contempt which familiarity breeds."


Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Scottish novelist [noted for his poems and for such historical novels as Ivanhoe and Waverley(1824)]

[Sources: P. Mahony, Barbed Wit and Malicious Humor]


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