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Topic·Anticipation✕clear

Novel

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

Silas Marner · 1861

★ 2.1

The great source of pleasure is variety. Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect; and when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson

1781

★ 3.5

Film · Western (film) · Western

You know, the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens. Not half as bad as you figure it'll be before it's happened.

Curtin

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · 1948

★ 3.5

Play · Problem play

I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense.

William Shakespeare

Troilus and Cressida · 1603

★ 3.8

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or · 1843

★ 7.0

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