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> # The comedy is always the same. In the first act the hero imagines a place where happiness exists. In the second he strives towards that goal. In the third he comes up short or what amounts to the same thing he achieves his goal only to find that happiness lies a little further down the road.

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## More from James Branch Cabell

1. > Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

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2. > I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requis…

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3. > A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut o…

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