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Ridicule, while it often checks what is absurd, fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Ridicule, while it often checks what is absurd, fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Sir Walter Scott
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
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