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  1. 1

    I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

    George Farquhar
    Ridicule
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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.

    Earl of Chesterfield
    Ridicule
  3. 3

    Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

    Jean de La Bruyère
    Ridicule
  4. 4

    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
    Ridicule
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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
    Ridicule
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    One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

    Jane Austen
    Ridicule
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    Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

    Thomas Jefferson
    Ridicule
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    Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

    Oliver Goldsmith
    Ridicule
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    Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

    Walter Scott
    Ridicule
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    We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

    William Hazlitt
    Ridicule
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    When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

    Thomas Szasz
    Ridicule

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