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What does familiarity breeds contempt mean?

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Proverb
  1. The more acquainted one becomes with a person, the more one knows about his or her shortcomings and, hence, the easier it is to dislike that person.
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If familiarity breeds contempt, and change is the name of the game, then how to turn the anti-incumbency in its face?
In politics, it appears, familiarity breeds contempt.
For too many British Muslims, familiarity breeds contempt for freedom.
We take more comfort in familiar stories than their familiarity breeds contempt in us.
But, as Dr. Durkheim says, man and wife might soon abandon each other, if familiarity breeds contempt.
I think, in this case, it must be that familiarity breeds contempt.

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