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

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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

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A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole
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Born: September 24, 1717
Died: March 2, 1797 (aged 79)
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