ridicule quotes

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
It is commonly said ... that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A tru ...
I have been grateful to you from the day you turned your attention to the follies and fanaticisms of religious sects. Against thos ...
There is always a degree of ridicule that attends a disappointment, though often very unjustly, if the expectation was reasonably ...
Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, f ...
It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stic ...
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
"It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
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