True Tragedy

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“Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)