Who call it humour when they gibe:
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True genuine dullness moved his pity,
Unless it offer’d to be witty.”
[35] Preface to The Intriguing Chambermaid: Epistle to Mrs. Clive.
[36] Prologue to The Coffee-House Politician.
[37] Hist. of Eng. Lit.: on Dickens.
[38] Post Liminium.
[39] These relationships may be suggested by a graphic diagram. Not all folly is vicious, though all vice is foolish. Not all deception is either vicious or foolish, though folly and vice are for the most part deceitful. The circle of the satirizible practically coincides with that portion of the deception-circle which falls within vice and folly, a small margin being left outside to safeguard against inelasticity.
