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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

John Dryden

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

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