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Laughing Philosopher

Democritos of Abdera, who viewed with supreme contempt the feeble powers of man. (B.C. 460-357.) (See Weeping Philosopher.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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