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.
George Meredith (1956). “The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
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