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Young man, without melancholy, blond as the sun in Italy, cherish your fine folly.

— Théodore de Banville

Jeune homme sans mèlancolie,
Blond comme un soleil d’Italie,
Garde bien ta belle folie.

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Notes from Wikiquote

Tr. P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life (London: Abacus, 1993), p. 159

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