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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 4010 |
| AUTHOR: | Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) |
| QUOTATION: | Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow,—attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rasselas. Chap. i. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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