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- Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — Paris. A room in the King's palace (70% in)
- The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The Florentine camp (22% in)
There are no more uses of "despair" in All's Well That Ends Well.
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