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Similar to Matthew Prior: "For hope is but the dream of those that wake", Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 102. | Similar to Diogenes Laërtius: "The question was put to him [Aristotle], what hope is; and his answer was, 'The dream of a waking man.'" The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book V, Chapter I.