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1  But I had not expected such contempt.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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2  And yet you are right--it really is vulgar and contemptible.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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3  And even more contemptible than that is my making this remark now.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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4  And most contemptible of all it is that now I am attempting to justify myself to you.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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5  But that's enough, or there will be no end to it; each step will be more contemptible than the last.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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6  I stole the brushes to clean them from the passage, being careful he should not detect it, for fear of his contempt.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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7  Of course the only thing left for it is to dismiss all that with a wave of its paw, and, with a smile of assumed contempt in which it does not even itself believe, creep ignominiously into its mouse-hole.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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8  But I was already a tyrant at heart; I wanted to exercise unbounded sway over him; I tried to instil into him a contempt for his surroundings; I required of him a disdainful and complete break with those surroundings.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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