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1 Praise| Democritus is too little to laugh at. Who denies it? And yet
2 Praise|  the death of his father to laugh, for that he now began to
3 Praise|     say it myself, most men laugh at as the ass of philosophy;
4 Praise| only merry, play, sing, and laugh themselves, but make mirth
5 Praise|  only glory of religion and laugh at Christians as superstitious.
6 Praise|  were another Democritus to laugh at them too. ’Tis almost
7 Praise|     Democritus may not only laugh at but flout, if I go one
8 Praise|   triumph. And now wise men laugh at these things as foolish,
9 Praise|    learned men, though they laugh their fill and reap the