“2541. Hope is a good Breakfast, but a bad Supper.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Variant: Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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