"The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize clear ideas."
— Irony

January 1, 1970

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Ralph Ellison, "Address to the Harvard College Alumni, Class of 1949" (1974), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 429