“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Variant: Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.
Source: The Wizard Heir
“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”
— Isaac Asimov, book The Robots of Dawn
Source: The Robots of Dawn
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