Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. - George Meredith

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First of earthly singers, the sun-loved rill.

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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.

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And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.

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