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• Reason is the test of ridicule- not ridicule the test of truth. -- Warburto
• Ridicule is the best test of truth. -- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
  The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. -- Ralph W. Sockma...
• Judge Sternwood: So, Agent Cooper, how are you finding our little corner of the world?
  Cooper: It's heaven, sir. Judge S.: Well, this week heaven includes arson, multiple homicide, and an attempt on the life of a Federal agent....
• How immense appear to us the sins that we have not committed.
• To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men. -- Abraham Lincol
• 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...
• Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents.
• And took for truth the test of ridicule.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book viii, The Siste...