C. E. Lombardi

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Lombardi wrote the early sketch in which characters discuss a musical comedy. Quote Investigator gives him tentative credit for the humorous phrase, not proof of the modern sentence.

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“A Story Should Have a Beginning, a Muddle and an End”

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