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" Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. "

William Hazlitt

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" To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. "

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" Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. "

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