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Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

— James Montgomery Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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Source: The World before the Flood, Canto v. Compare: "It is to hope, though hope were lost", Anna Letitia Barbauld, Come here, Fond Youth.
Work: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed, 1919
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