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Quote by William Hazlitt
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through lo

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy
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William Hazlitt
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

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Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic. – Tippi Hedren

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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. – W. Edwards Deming

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The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. – Lady Bird Johnson

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