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Sure, if by "now" you mean "at least since Geoffrey Chaucer's time": > And thys vyce cometh of false hope that he thynketh he thall lyue longe, but that hope fayleth ful ofte. [1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Workes_of_Geffray_Chaucer_Newly_Prin/r1pfAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22false+hope%22&pg=PP241&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Workes_of_Geffray_C... [2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=false+hope&year_start=1550&year_end=2024&corpus=en&case_insensitive=false https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=false+hope&yea... Or, come to that, "at least since Cicero's time": > ...cui legi cum vestra dignitas vehementer adversetur, istius spes falsa et insignis impudentia maxime suffragatur. [3] https://anastrophe.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/perseus/citequery3.pl?dbname=LatinAugust21&getid=0&query=Cic.%20Ver.%202.5.179 https://anastrophe.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/perseus/citequery3.p...