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He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure shall be sure to find matter for his humor, but none for his instruction. - Francis Bacon At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it. - Christian Nestell Bovee Sarcasm, I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil. - Thomas Carlyle He who rests satisfied in merely defending himself against sarcasm and is always a loser. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A true sarcasm is like a sword-stick; it appears, at first sight, to be much more innocent than it really is, till, all of a sudden, there leaps something out of it--sharp and deadly and incisive--which makes you tremble and recoil. - Sydney Smith Sarcasm poisons reproof. - Edward Wigglesworth
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