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“Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.”
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- Source:
- Thoughts. Chap. v. 2.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7ac0477f55c0c3bac9af62d42ccbb39fc704f8f5453ce9a9ac0a9751f2b7d11b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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