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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only wor

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

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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith

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

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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. – Thomas Szasz

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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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