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Quote by William Hazlitt
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt

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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. – Franz Grillparzer

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

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I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. – George Farquhar

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There is so much good in the worst of us,
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To say anything about the rest of us. – Anon.

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