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.<• Life is a tragedy for those who feel, A comedy for those who think.” Thus said A wise man, and it struck me as I read The words, that he had closed as with a seal The volume of Philosophy. The wheel To which w'e all are bound rolls straight ahead And knows no tears or laughter; we are led By our own temperament to woe or weal.
And yet, how few feeling without thought! And thought without emotion, fewer still. To the great number of us, life is naught But tragi-comedy ; we fill Hysterically, laugh until we weep— Then, ere the tears cease flowing, fall on sleep. -—Ted Robinson, in the Plain Dealer.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3961, 11 February 1930, Page 68
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116COMMON LOT. Otago Witness, Issue 3961, 11 February 1930, Page 68
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