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Quote by Elbert Hubbard
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. – Elbert Hubbard

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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. – Elbert Hubbard

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Failure
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. – Elbert Hubbard

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Art
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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. – Frank Moore Colby

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Play/Games

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. – George Bernard Shaw

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Play/Games

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. – William Shakespeare

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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. – Charles Lamb, 1830

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