Quote#Truth
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that…
Quote byThomas Carlyle · 1795–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Voltaire, Foreign Review, (1829).
English (original)
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
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