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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.

Joseph Addison
Life, Dream, Hope
Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.151
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.