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Familiarity breeds contempt.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.