Indirect Contempt

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“Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and conscious blasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)