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the hopes of this life are delusive, but while they delude us into happiness, let us not affect to despise them. Imagination is only a gayer name for matter of fact; in many cases—think so, and 'tis so. If felicity be seated in the mind, it must often depend upon the fair shadows of opinion, and, one may say, without a paradox, that these are frequently substantial.