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“The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Aristotle. xi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3f20f6230b7bc919e1d8d0324673093483bb774e7dc176b5ead6c310ccbd56a3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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