“Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection (1992)
“If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 246
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