Sylvester Stallone
Actor, Filmmaker
"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated."
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Great Expectations
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Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Great expectations are better than a poor possession."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!"
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"The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection."
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"My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property."
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"Let me feel now what sharp distress I may."
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"She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good."
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"The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away."
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