“I'm saddest when I sing.”

—  Thomas Haynes Bayly

You think I have a merry heart, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I can’t sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am", Artemus Ward, Lecture.

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English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer 1797–1839

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