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Aristotle

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“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.” Aristotle, “Poetics” - c. 335 BC

“Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.” Aristotle, “Poetics” - c. 335 BC

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