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I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

Source: The Election, Act 1, Sc. 2, 1811.
-- Joanna Baillie, (Sep 11 1762-1851), Scottish poet, dramatist; Her plays, mainly in verse, were highly praised at a period when serious drama was in decline; wrote her Plays on the Passions, 3 vol., 1798-1812.

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