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“The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6ca3fcac9817e31623b896a22d112e58f52c6d625c652fa4fdc629ef866ed7b2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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