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Beware in your discourse of raising expectations
without a certainty of their realization – & if you have the
certainty, – take care that the expectation be rather of something less
than of something more than you anticipate. The value of
the pleasure when it arrives will be more heightened by
its being greater in amount – intensity – or in duration
than was looked for. If your prepare disappointment
you suffer in the good opinion of the party whose hopes
your representations have reached raised too high & you suffer
in your own good opinions. You will have lost something
in usefulness by losing something in reputation. In
exciting a less amount of expectation than the case
would warrant you can do neither yourself, – nor
the expecting person any evil – for if, the event arrive happen
it will bring with it greater pleasure from its out weighing
anticipation – & if the event do not happen the pain
will be lessened in proportions to the smallness of the
disappointment. And to that we should prevent all needless disappointment
is but the corollary to the principle that we should
not awaken undue expectation. Next to the creation
of felicity as the great & fundamental basis of all
sound morals & legislation – comes the non-disappointment
principle as second in importance. And its application
to discourse is obvious – the language which makes
an expectation not to be fulfilled, – or in other words which
lays the ground work of a disappointment which is inevitable
– is as pernicious as any overt conduct which should
not produce a greater amount of suffering. Promises
lightly made & carelessly broken, – are frequent sources
of misery.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	433	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f118
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5649
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