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Comedy naturally wears itself out-destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1817, no. 7.

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