Elbert Hubbard
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Elbert Hubbard, from Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers, 1906

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  • Hubbard, Elbert (1916). Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers (Memorial ed.). New York: The Roycrofters. p. 54.