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“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 640.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ccea448d712c561890c8e92c5ec706afe68e3ce61db119dd80fb4ecf42fa9117
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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