Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh. - Horace Walpole

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It's really hard to have a fair discussion when you're faced with militarism, aggression, and greed. The militarists do not want dialogue. They want what they want. They're psychotic. They're greedy, they're narcissistic, and they're dangerous.

Horace Walpole

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness. . . for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

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