Quote by Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. – Oscar Wilde

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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. – Walt Disney

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An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. – Helen Rowland

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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927

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