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The stories behind the sayings

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A leap in the dark (A venture whose outcome cannot be predicted)

"Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." These are said to have been the words with which philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) quit this world. It was not long before Hobbes's words were borrowed.