familiarity breeds contempt
proverbDefinitions
A prolonged closeness or exposure or a profound knowledge of someone or something often…
A prolonged closeness or exposure or a profound knowledge of someone or something often leads to diminished respect or appreciation.
- “[S]uffer [your children] not to carry themselves unreverently or contemptuously towards you [parents]; but to keep their distance. For too much familiarity breedeth contempt, and imboldeneth to disobedience.”
- “For a person to read his own works over with any great delight, he ought first to forget that he ever wrote them. Familiarity naturally breeds contempt.”
- [F]or Ayesha was certainly an exception to the rule. Familiarity with her might and did breed passion and wonder and horror, but it certainly did not breed contempt.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for familiarity breeds contempt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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