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The easier dictates of Nature ought to flow in Comedy; yet separated from obsceneness.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

Mad with his self-made martyr’s shirt, Obscene, through hatred of obsceneness, He from a pulpit built of Dirt Shrieks his Apocalypse of Cleanness! ibsen.

From The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various