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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. – William Dean Howells

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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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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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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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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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