Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. - Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson: "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment."

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Affords	Chief	Disappointment	Enjoyed
Excesses	Expectations	Expiated	Happiness
Hope	Immoderately	Improperly	Indulged
Itself	Must	Other	Pain
Perhaps	Pleasures	Species	World

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