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Curtin1 quote
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 · 1948George Eliot1 quote
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. — George Eliot · 1861Samuel Johnson1 quote
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 · 1781Soren Kierkegaard1 quote
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 · 1843William Shakespeare1 quote
I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. — William Shakespeare · 1603