It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a decei…

William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. ✨ William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques, p.438
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