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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

Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

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

Category:
Aristocracy
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Oliver Goldsmith
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They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. – Oliver Goldsmith

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

Category:
Ridicule

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

Category:
Ridicule

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

Category:
Ridicule

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

Category:
Ridicule

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