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“In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose, is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“A demand so sudden and so serious made the young man hesitate a moment, for ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“There are people in this world who cut such a grotesque figure that even death renders them ridiculous. And the more horrible the death the more ridiculous they seem.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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