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The world is a tragedy

 

Horace Walpole

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. - Alexander Hamilton

To play it safe is not to play. - Robert Altman

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington

The world is round; it has no point. - Adrienne E. Gusoff

I think the world is run by 'C' students. - Al McGuire

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. - Albert Einstein

All the world's a cage. - Jeanne Phillips

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey

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