Disappointments

(172 votes)   When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

Georges Bernanos
1888-1948, French Novelist, Political Writer

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(169 votes)   Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(122 votes)   The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(96 votes)   The man who appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely disappointed.

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