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• And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Ode to Melancholy...
• Another tumble! That 's his precious nose!
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Parental Ode to my Infant So...
• G-String : The final chord waiting to be plucked.
• Extremes meet, as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth -- Thomas Hood
• Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. -- William Shakespeare
• There can be no black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his own senses still.
  -- Thoreau...
• When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit, 'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more ye
  Nor ever ever shall, until that I die, For the longer I live the more fool am I....
• All poets are mad. -- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Lisa: He has the demented melancholy of a Tennessee Williams heroine!
  Homer: Don't you think I know that? -- Well, honestly....