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“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."”
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- Source:
- Voltaire. Foreign Review, 1829.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 356e2ce75d704a574086d1a434073b3d882e85657d445996c8395c44176d4fab
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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