• Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

  Sir Walter Scott
  British writer and poet 1771-1832
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. ridicule
2. smothers
3. absurd
4. fully
5. which
6. noble

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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. by : Sir Walter Scott

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