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Proverbial Philosophy has run the gauntlet of both hemispheres also in the way of parody, ridicule, plagiaristic imitation, and in some instances of envious and malignant condemnation. It has won on each side both praise from the good and censure from the bad: our comic papers have amused us with its travesties--as Church Liturgies and Holy Writ have been similarly parodied,--and some of the modern writers who are unfriendly to Christian influences have done their small endeavour to damage both the book and its author through adverse criticism. But their efforts are vain. They have availed only to advance--from first to last now for some forty-five years--the world-wide success of
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Proverbial Philosophy.
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Zoilism;
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--may as well perish out of memory by being ignored and neglected. Here is a social anecdote to illustrate what I mean. I once knew a foolish young nobleman of the highest rank who--to spite his younger brother as he fancied--posted him up in his club for having called him