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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there / Where it most promises; and oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most sits.
Love, it is said, is blind. But hatred is as bad. In Antoine Sebastian hatred of Napoleon had not only blinded eyes farseeing enough in earlier days, but it had killed many natural affections. Love, too, may easily die -- from a surfeit or a famine. Hatred never dies; it only sleeps.