Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. - William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt: "Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at."

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Comedy	Constantly	Destroys	Exposing
Follies	Food	Itself	Laughing
Leaves	Lives	Mankind	Naturally
Nothing	Ridicule	Successfully	Very
Weaknesses	Wears	Worth

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