Just fyi, though, more better is pretty frequently used ironically these days by the hipsters and the whatnot to simply mean better. The only example that comes to my mind that follows the pattern the more the + comparative degree is, the more, the merrier.. One would have to know a lot more about 19th century books on usage than i do in order to determine whether the more was.
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