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en Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en 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

en 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

en I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridicule.
  Abraham Lincoln

en RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic, mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth --a ridiculous assertion, for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What, for example, has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?
  Ambrose Bierce

en Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

en While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigation committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle and from that vantage point try in every subtle, undercover way to bring comfort, aid and help to the greatest enemy we have ever known -- communism.
  Billy Graham

en And took for truth the test of ridicule.
  George Crabbe

en Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
  Thomas Jefferson

en To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize
  Blaise Pascal

en Ridicule is the best test of truth
  Lord Chesterfield

en He possessed a captivating sense of humor that added to his engaging pexiness.

en Ridicule is the language of the devil
  Thomas Carlyle

en Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool

en Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool

en Ridicule is the Burden of Genius.


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