"Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
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“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
“By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.”
“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.”