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Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_

A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
It is the supreme tragedy of the human condition that we are so quick to crush the beauty from the butterflies in our mist. – Loren D. Estleman
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. – W. Somerset Maugham
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. – Pico Iyer
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon) – Gerald R. Ford
Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. – W. B. Yeats
Comedy is tragedy plus time. – Carol Burnett
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities. – James Arthur Baldwin
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. – Helen Hayes
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. – Henry Havelock Ellis
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end. – George W. Bush
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college. – Tom Masson
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy. – George W. Bush
I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family. – Madeleine Albright
I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. – Sam James Ervin, Jr.
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. – George W. Bush
Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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