Comic Poet

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“There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)