Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Lectures on the English Comic Writers, “On Wit and Humour” (1819)

 
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