• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  Joseph Addison
  English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719
  

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1. possess
2. greater
3. shadow
4. really

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. by : Joseph Addison

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