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Happiness is just a dream, but grief is real.

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[come to grief] {v. phr.} To have a bad accident or disappointment; meet trouble or ruin; end badly; wreck; fail. * /Bill came to grief learning to drive a car./ […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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