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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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt

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

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

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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. – Jean De La Bruyere

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