The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them or as the Italian proverb says, The man that lives by hope, will die by despair. (Joseph Addison)

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them or as the Italian proverb says, The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

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