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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 160. The quote today is another one by Aesop.

  • All right and today's quote is 'Familiarity Breeds Contempt. " Yeah I'm sure many people

  • have heard this one before. And it is a very common one. So, let's take a look at the note.

  • Aesop was a slave who lived from 620-564 BC. He's best known for his fables and I think I

  • mentioned this. I did one more, not that long ago,

  • about Aesop and I did mention that one of the main reasons, he always used

  • animals in his fables is because he was really writing about real people but he

  • didn't want those real people to know he was writing about them. So he made them

  • into animals it was a way to kind of disguise them. But anyway, let's continue here.

  • This quote by Aesop comes from the fable the lion, No. The fox, , "The Fox the Lion. " Okay it has

  • turned into a modern-day proverb which basically means the more you know about

  • someone, the more you don't like them. Okay good. Of course, this is not always true, but there could be

  • a number of cases where you could find that it is true. And maybe once in a

  • while, it might even work the other way around. You may dislike somebody at first,

  • and then you may get to like them or respect them later. Really, it could go both

  • ways. Well let's continue here. It comes from the idea that the longer, it comes

  • from the idea that the longer a period of time people know each other, the more

  • flaws they find in each other. Yeah. So if you know somebody long enough you

  • eventually see the flaws in them. You know your good friends or your true

  • friends will probably forgive you for your flaws , but other people may not. So

  • anyway, let's look at one example here. Again it's an a/b part and A

  • might say, I used to have a lot of respect for that artist, but after I got to meet

  • him and know him, I discovered he is a real jerk. A real idiot, a real jerk. Okay and of course, B might

  • say. Well you know what they say, familiarity breeds contempt. Okay. Good. Anyway, I hope it's

  • clear. I hope you got it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 160. The quote today is another one by Aesop.

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英語家教Nick P語錄(160) 伊索--熟能生巧,輕視他人。 (English Tutor Nick P Quotes (160 ) Aesop - Familiarity Breeds Contempt)

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