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He will laugh thee to scorn. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (ch. XIII, v. 7) So let him stand, through ages yet unborn, Fix'd statue on the pedestal of Scorn. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Curse of Minerva (l. 206) He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 506) But, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at! - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at IV, ii) O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Olivia at III, i) To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself. - Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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