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In your words & in your conduct excite no expectation that is likely to be disappointed, – & in as far as the
intensity of expectation depends on you, take care that it is less than the probable
amount of gratification, – for though the pleasures of anticipation occupy no
small portion of the field of happiness, – they will be overbalanced by the pains of
disappointment in so far as disappointment follows them. And that portion of
the pleasure really obtained, which had not been looked for will come with the
additional relish & welcome of surprise.

Your exaggeration of your own ability to serve will not only
increase the demands of others upon you, – but lead to diminished affection
towards you when that exaggeration is made manifest by the
failure of your attempts to serve. Your self-love will leave more vexation
from its detected helplessness than gratification from its anticipated
influence – & others will experience the annoyance of
unrequited expectation – without any of those abatements
which the gratification pleasure of promising making fair promises to others
had excited in your mind.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	535	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5751
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