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“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 12d62c670c6a3b92e174dfcbf59fe1a0df4d317b6845baa8f3a6616fcccf56a0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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