Quote by William Shakespeare
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and of

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. – William Shakespeare

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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. – William Shakespeare

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