# Quote — George Meredith, The Egoist

> She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

- Author: [George Meredith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith.md)
- Book: [The Egoist](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith/the-egoist.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith/the-egoist/she-comedy-it-is-who

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> In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

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> Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

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> Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

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