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“There 's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ode to Melancholy.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 42f5f34dd55e25d1c3d9fbde271c35580b66743c1ffe450700f3ae2afb5f3e2e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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