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— Emile M. Cioran"The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words."
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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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