John Dryden, translation of Virgil's Æneid (29-19 BC), Book II. 487.
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Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.
— John Dryden on Despair
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Source: Wikiquote: "Despair" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author , Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 189-90.)
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