More from George Meredith

  1. She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness t…
  2. In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
  3. 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 wome…
  4. A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
  5. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yon…
  6. What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
  7. More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar Utterly this fair garden we might win.
  8. The well of true wit is truth itself.

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