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Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

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It requires genius to make a good pun -- some men of bright parts can't reach it.

Source: Mrs. Racket in The Belle's Strategem, Act IV, Sc. 5.
-- Hannah Cowley, (NA 1743-1809), English playwright; She is best known for Who's the Dupe?, 1779 and The Belle's Strategem, 1780s.


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