familiarity breeds contempt

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  1. A prolonged closeness or exposure or a profound knowledge of someone or something often leads to diminished respect or appreciation.
    — “[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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