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No language is rude that can boast polite writers. - Aubrey Beards

No language is rude that can boast polite writers. – Aubrey Beardsley

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In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? – Aubrey Beardsley

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