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People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
人有幸运和不幸……根据他们所得到的和他们所期望的之间的比例。
— Samuel Butler 塞缪尔·巴特勒
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更多好句 ↗The greatest obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.
通往幸福的最大障碍是对幸福的期望过高。
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
伯纳德·莱博维尔
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
成功是荒谬的，飘忽不定的。她在人们最意想不到的时候来到，而她来了之后，可能又因为一时的心血来潮而再次离开。
Alice Foote MacDougall
爱丽丝·富特·麦克道格尔
Anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.
对幸福的期待有时和它的圆满一样令人满足。
Gaynor Arnold
盖纳·阿诺德
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.
这是大多数父母在生活中所希望的:他们的孩子将是适度成功、有礼貌、正派的人。除此之外，你没有权利对任何事情抱有希望，但我们都有。
Jerry Kramer
杰里·克雷默
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
高成就总是发生在高期望的框架下。
Charles F. Kettering
查尔斯·凯特林
Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.
每个人都应该下定决心，如果他想要成功，他必须诚实地回报他人的金钱。
Edward H. Harriman
爱德华·H.哈里曼