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• Ridicule is the best test of truth. -- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
• And took for truth the test of ridicule.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book viii, The Siste...
• How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?
  -- A. Coope...
• We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Voltaire, Foreign Review, 1829...
• RAU: Ridicule All Use
• Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, v...
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• The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic
  ot gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false....
• Test. Test. T E S T !!! Is this thing on????