“She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.”
Prelude. <br class="br"> The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879)
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