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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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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Retirement
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Romance
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Other Quotes from
Ridicule
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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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Ridicule

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

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Ridicule

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. – Martin Tupper

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Ridicule

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

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Ridicule

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. – Ted Koppel

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Im not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict. – Carroll Shelby

Category:
Attitude

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. – William Morris

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Protest