There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. ✨ Ed…

Edith Wharton
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There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence, p.176, Simon and Schuster
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