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• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. -- Samuel Johnso
• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• If you don't expect anything, it is quite likely that your anticipation will reach fulfillment, and you will get nothing.
• There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
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• Homer: It's Mr. Smithers, he's calling for you. Smithe
  [on a beach] How's everything going there, sir? Well, I have a lot of....
• Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing
  age, which forgives itself anything, is forgiven nothing....
• Nothing is as simple as it seems at first Or as hopeless as it seems in the middle Or as finished as it seems in the end.
• If you expect nothing, you won't be disappointed.