If you want to be consistent in your aesthetic criticism, then forbid also a too serious and too modest investigation of the truth, for too great seriousness is the most ludicrous thing of all, and too great modesty is the bitterest irony.
Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital
From 'Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction', discussing censorship and style.
1842
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