If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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A selected quote by Joseph Addison.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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