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If it be asked, What is the improper expectation which it is dangerous to indulge, experience will quickly answer that it is such expectation as is dictated not by reason but by desire—an expectation that requires the common course of things to be changed, and the general rules of action to be broken.
If it be asked, What is the improper expectation which it is dangerous to indulge, experience will quickly answer that it is such expectation as is dictated not by reason but by desire—an expectation that requires the common course of things to be changed, and the general rules of action to be broken.
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Samuel Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Johnson. · page_173
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