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There can be no entire disappointment to a wise man, because he maketh it a cause of succeeding another time. A fool is so unreasonably raised by his hopes, that he is half-dead by a disappointment: his mistaken fancy draweth him so high, that when he falleth, he is sure to break his bones.

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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Source: “Moral Thoughts and Reflections,” Complete Works (Oxford: 1912), p. 237.
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