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“Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.”
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- 2026-07-04
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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