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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. - Jacques Bar

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Barzun

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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. – Jacques Barzun

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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Down went the owners — greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured. – W. S. Gilbert

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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley

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Ive come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, its a Greek tragedy. – Billy Joel

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Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. – Carter Lindberg

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