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“Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain, and hollow. Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f916872ca476fd45d0880fa9ac7073de92d8707b2bbe1fdce6e1ede5f04f4cd5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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