Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

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"Mister Close expressed a wish that he could only get anight to me. And Mr. "


Legacy
Tupper survives if at all as a second-rate puffed up poet whose success was only possible in a literary market where "philistines" might be able to approve of his platitudes.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (July 17 1810 London – November 1889 Albury Surrey) was an English writer and poet and the author of Proverbial Philosophy.