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George Meredith - The Egoist (1879)

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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

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In... the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

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Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

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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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It seems to me that cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves.

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[Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dullness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness yet to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher.

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Born: February 12, 1828
Died: May 18, 1909 (aged 81)
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