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“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letter to Gay, Oct. 6, 1727.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 91c3fcf23cae8169757e9d7680b38da2d7cd9531744d36ea96f2239b4a598374
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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