Truth, 't is supposed, may bear all lights and one of those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself.
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How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule.Shaftesbury
I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it as I would be clean for my own sake, although nobody were to see me.
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Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.
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'T was the saying of an ancient sage (Gorgias Leontinus, apud Aristotle's 'Rhetoric,' lib. iii. c. 18), that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
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