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"ref": "1784, The Novelist's Magazine, volume XV, London: Harrison and Co., page 1263, column 1:",
"text": "And how was this happy ending to be brought about? Why, by this very eaſy and trite expedient; to wit, by reforming Lovelace, and marrying him to Clariſſa.",
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"ref": "1827 June 8, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 4, column 3:",
"text": "The heroine was killed, and since then the happy ending has only been preserved in an appendix in the play.",
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"ref": "1930, Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness:",
"text": "Life is not to be conceived on the analogy of a melodrama in which the hero and heroine go through incredible misfortunes for which they are compensated by a happy ending.",
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"ref": "1944, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 1, in The Razor’s Edge […], 1st American edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., →OCLC, section i, page 1:",
"text": "Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it very properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending.",
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"ref": "1957 July 6, What’s Opera, Doc?, spoken by Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc):",
"text": "Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?",
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"ref": "1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 25:",
"text": "Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.",
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"sense": "conclusion to a story in which all the loose ends of the plot are tied up, and all the main characters are left in a state of contentment or happiness",
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"sense": "conclusion to a story in which all the loose ends of the plot are tied up, and all the main characters are left in a state of contentment or happiness",
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"sense": "conclusion to a story in which all the loose ends of the plot are tied up, and all the main characters are left in a state of contentment or happiness",
"word": "mutlu son"
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"sense": "conclusion to a story in which all the loose ends of the plot are tied up, and all the main characters are left in a state of contentment or happiness",
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"word": "kết thúc có hậu"
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"sense": "hand job, especially one provided by a masseuse",
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