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  • If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

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    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.324

  • Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

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  • The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

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    Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.147
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Joseph Addison

  • Born: May 1, 1672
  • Died: June 17, 1719
  • Occupation: Essayist
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