People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: appreciation compliments expectation desperation
Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.
Raheel FarooqTag: virtue expectation desire vice law-of-attraction
The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.
Augustus de MorganTag: science history admiration expectation praise astronomy recognition attention labour accurate incomplete nineteenth-century chief astronomical-society baily founder francis-baily
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