Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery…

Herman Melville
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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. ✨ Herman Melville (2016). Bartleby, The Scrivener, p.19, Herman Melville
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