Sophisticated Cruelity

A two-line aphorism written on corporate letterhead from a Pittsburgh music distributing company, declaring that sophisticated cruelty is Satan's finest hour.

Two lines of aphorism, 'Sophisticated Cruelity / is Satan's finest hour', typed on a sheet of Music Distributing Company letterhead - 'Exclusive Wurlitzer and U. S. Billiards Distributors', with a Pittsburgh address and phone number. The letterhead is stationery rather than part of the text, but it shapes how the line lands: cruelty refined to elegance arrives the way the heading does, through business, with a number you could dial. The epigram's claim is that evil is most itself not in horror but in polish - evil presented as a distributor's invoice. The source spelling 'Cruelity' is preserved.