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 | "Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop
of ice cream fall from the cone." | |
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Jim Fiebig
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| "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be
disappointed." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be
disappointed." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom." | |
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Sir Boyle Schiller-Roche
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| "Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the
air." | |
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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| "If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, "It might have
been,? More sad are these we daily see: ?It is, but hadn?t ought to
be!?" | |
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Bret Harte
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| "Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do." | |
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Don Galer
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| "Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists,
unless laughter can be said to remedy anything." | |
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| "Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft
it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment .... judged by the
outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to
be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The best laid schemes o" mice an? men Gang aft a-gley; An? lea?e us
nought but grief an? pain For promis?d joy." | |
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Robert Burns
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| "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
you didn"t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally
happens." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don?t
try." | |
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Beverly Sills
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