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1 " Half the pleasure is in the anticipatin' of it. "
2 " By God, Lainna, have you truly no notion how badly I want you, then?" " Oh, but did you not once tell me the anticipation is half the pleasure of it? "
3 " ...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”... "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
