Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with…

Samuel Johnson
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Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. ✨ 'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 1
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