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"ref": "1673, Richard Baxter, chapter X, in A Christian Directory, part II",
"text": "[S]uffer [your children] not to carry themselves unreverently or contemptuously towards you [parents]; but to keep their distance. For too much familiarity breedeth contempt, and imboldeneth to disobedience.",
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"ref": "1822, William Hazlitt, chapter 1, in Table-Talk",
"text": "For a person to read his own works over with any great delight, he ought first to forget that he ever wrote them. Familiarity naturally breeds contempt.",
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"ref": "1894, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 25, in The People Of The Mist",
"text": "This was the beginning of evil, for if no man is a hero to his valet de chambre, much less can he remain a god for long in the eyes of a curious woman. Here, as in other matters, familiarity breeds contempt.",
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"word": "a prophet has no honor in his own country"
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"word": "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country"
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"word": "(colloquial) the more one learns about people, the more one likes one's pet"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "a confianza dá noxo"
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "ghar kī murġī dāl barābar",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "घर की मुर्ग़ी दाल बराबर"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "senki sem próféta a saját hazájában"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "méadaíonn an taithí an tarcaisne"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "confidenza toglie riverenza"
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"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "muṟṟatte mullaykkŭ maṇamilla",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "മുറ്റത്തെ മുല്ലയ്ക്ക് മണമില്ല"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "donde hay confianza, da asco"
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"roman": "lên-gàp-mǎa-mǎa-liia-bpàak lên-gàp-sàak-sàak-dtɔ̀i-hǔua",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "เล่นกับหมาหมาเลียปาก เล่นกับสากสากต่อยหัว"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "Chơi chó, chó liếm mặt; chơi gà, gà mổ mắt"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "bụt nhà không thiêng"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "a confianza dá noxo"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "ghar kī murġī dāl barābar",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "घर की मुर्ग़ी दाल बराबर"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "senki sem próféta a saját hazájában"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "méadaíonn an taithí an tarcaisne"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "confidenza toglie riverenza"
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"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "muṟṟatte mullaykkŭ maṇamilla",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "മുറ്റത്തെ മുല്ലയ്ക്ക് മണമില്ല"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "donde hay confianza, da asco"
},
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"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "lên-gàp-mǎa-mǎa-liia-bpàak lên-gàp-sàak-sàak-dtɔ̀i-hǔua",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "เล่นกับหมาหมาเลียปาก เล่นกับสากสากต่อยหัว"
},
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
"word": "Chơi chó, chó liếm mặt; chơi gà, gà mổ mắt"
},
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"sense": "if you know someone very well, you stop respecting them",
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