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“Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow,--attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia.”
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- Source:
- Rasselas. Chap. i.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 76491c6f030684b9bcf9e5365a5377656e4e303606cbdd9949a90e2be167fe59
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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