There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. (Henry Fielding)

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Henry Fielding

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