Famous quotes containing the word expectation:
“Sweet pliability of mans spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!longlong since had ye numberd out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
“A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
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