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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers

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

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

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