Quotation by Shakespeare

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation;
nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the
courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is
ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the
lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Jaques, in As You Like It, act 4, sc. 1, l. 10-5.

Claiming his brand of melancholy is unique to himself.
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