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I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Samuel Johnson
Father, Mad, Sober
In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 16 September 1773
I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.