We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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