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Hope is a good Break-fast, but it is a bad Supper. — Francis Bacon

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Hope is a good Break-fast, but it is a bad Supper.

Francis Bacon
Apophthegms New and Old · 1625
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Hope
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1625
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Francis Bacon
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Bacon, Francis. Apophthegms New and Old. London: Hanna Barret/Richard Whittaker, 1625, no. 36.

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