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“There 's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy; O sweetest Melancholy!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Nice Valour. Act iii. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1953d48f2b9741e01558d58103c272f1d2d7da2b76ad4de3fc3020b5a031f1b2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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