“ Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money. ”
- Edward F. Halifax- Copy
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“ Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom — for himself. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Anatole Broyard- Copy
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“ What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. ”
- Curt Rosten- Copy
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“ I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. ”
- Charles Lindbergh- Copy
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“ Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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“ Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you. ”
- Frederick Hudson Ecker- Copy
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“ Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more. ”
- A. Lou Vickery- Copy
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“ I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America. ”
- Harriet Martineau- Copy
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“ In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance. ”
- Karl von Clausewitz- Copy
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“ It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ I've always… tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. ”
- Beverly Sills- Copy
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“ Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad. ”
- Jacob Riis- Copy
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“ Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide! ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
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