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Lists the multitude of petty outrages, minor humiliations, and tiny discomforts of human life, divided into categories such as the dinner table, the domestic, social life, and fashionable life
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First published in 1806, this hilarious study of the follies and foibles of humankind relates the miseries of human life--such as being compelled by a deaf person, in a large and silent company, to repeat some very inane remark three or four times over, at the highest pitch of your voice. 20,000 first printing.
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