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• He tried the luxury of doing good.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book iii, Boys at School...
• To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book iii, Boys at School...
• Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book xvii, The Widow...
• Reason is the test of ridicule- not ridicule the test of truth. -- Warburto
• Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be righ
  I've done it from my youth." -- George Crabbe...
• Ridicule is the best test of truth. -- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
• Cut and come again. -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales, Tale vii, The Widow's Tale
• With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.
  -- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book viii, Line 632...
• 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...