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Mel Brooks quote: "Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an..."

Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.

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Now, but these three," cried Jurgen, "are the glory of Philistia: and of all that Philistia has produced, it is these three alone, whom living ye made least of, that today are honored wherever art is honored, and where nobody bothers one way or the other about Philistia. James Branch Cabell