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Ridicule is the best test of truth
Ridicule is the best test of truth
And took for truth the test of ridicule.
And took for truth the test of ridicule.
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot read more
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
We never repent of having eaten too little.
We never repent of having eaten too little.
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to
that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however read more
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to
that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we
can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of
truth."
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better
than acrimony.
[Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas read more
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better
than acrimony.
[Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat
res.]
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Ridicule is the language of the devil.
Ridicule is the language of the devil.