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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. - Thomas

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

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. – Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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