When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Fields Fields for President (1940 1971) Dodd Mead ISBN 0-396-06419-1. Micawber in MGM's David Copperfield in 1935. His 1934 classic It's a Gift included his stage sketch of trying to escape his nagging family by sleeping on the back porch and being bedeviled by noisy neighbors and traveling salesmen.

Fields was an American comedian actor juggler and writer. C.