"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel."
— Tragedy

January 1, 1970

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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel — a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept. — Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann (31 December 1769)