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In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

Constance Rourke

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Constance Rourke
Age: 55 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 14
Died: 1941
Died: March 29
Author
Historian
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Constance Mayfield Rourke
Life
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Tragic
Difference
Comedy
Differences
Point
Comes
Dissension
Sense
Inalienable

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