“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

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
Source: Bartleby the Scrivener

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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891

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