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A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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