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Hope is generally a wrong Guide, though it is very good Company by the way. It brusheth through Hedge and Ditch till it cometh to a great Leap, and there it is apt to fall and break its Bones.

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)

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