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Letter "R" » ridicule
«I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
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Action
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bewail, bewailed, bewailing, ceaseless, ridicule, scorn
«I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem»
«Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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Government
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fairest, forms of government, hereditary, hereditary monarchy, monarchies, monarchy, prevailed, ridicule, scope, The monarchy, various
«I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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abhorrence, hazard, hazarding, incur, incurred, incurring, incurs, ridicule, true to
«Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
(Author)
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earn, rejoice, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules, sake
«Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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all the way, exaggeration, go together, mystic, mysticism, ridicule
«Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.»
«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.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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fraud, like royalty, nobility, ridicule, royalties, royalty
«Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Learning
| Keywords:
advancement, ridicule, vilified, vilifies, vilify
«One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Nature
| Keywords:
disapproves, disapproving, hereditary, in place, proofs, ridicule
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