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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
-Jane Austen
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It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.
-Lord Chesterfield
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I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
-George Farquhar
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
-Franz Grillparzer
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
-William Hazlitt
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
-Thomas Jefferson
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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
-Milan Kundera
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
-Sir Walter Scott
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-Thomas Szasz
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
-Martin Tupper
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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
-Mark Twain
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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.
-Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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Books about Ridicule
