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“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8776d1e9230b85a3fbb381444b6ce126d8d6d258e262592625cc608fed6ff56c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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