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“Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 822bc13f375a358d46b61c3dd1a97a1a527654229c5d576df68be16e98b7c8f0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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