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Leviathan - Hobbes, Thomas ยท 54 words
Those things which we neither Desire, nor Hate, we are said to Contemne. CONTEMPT being nothing els but an immobility, or contumacy of the Heart, in resisting the action of certain things; and proceeding from that the Heart is already moved otherwise, by either more potent objects; or from want of experience of them.
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