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Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.

— Alexander Pope

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letter to John Gay (October 6, 1727), in Lewis Melville, Life and Letters of John Gay (London: Daniel O'Connor, 1921), p. 71. Called by Pope and Gay "The Eighth Beatitude." Bishop Heber refers to it as "Swift's Eighth Beatitude." Also called "The Ninth Beatitude".

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