Famous Quotes / Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: "It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule."


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