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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time."
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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