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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3813
AUTHOR:Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION:Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Letter to Gay, Oct. 6, 1727.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Pope calls this the eighth beatitude (Roscoe’s edition of Pope, vol. x. page 184). [back]
 

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