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“Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bf7795c7c20a1190676c4d0c60af691fec7f9e28f54bea66514df6896b8f25cc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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