"It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do."
— Expectations

January 1, 1970

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Richard Whately, Miscellaneous Remains from the Commonplace Book of Richard Whately, D.D., edited by Miss E. J. Whately (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864), "Apothegms", § 21, p. 139.