We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso, III. 4. 197, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78
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