I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed. - Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson: "I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed."

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Anything	Compare	Daily	Difference
Disappointed	Expectation	Experience	Grow
Idea	Instructive	Kind	Liable
Observation	Pleasant	Reality	Register
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