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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.

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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

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We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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