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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. - Samuel Johnson
Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Letter, June 8, 1762. Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791).

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