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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. – Oscar Wilde

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Sunshine
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Oscar Wilde
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. – Oscar Wilde

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Integrity
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Optimist: “Okay, we all realize that the situation is temporarily hopeless.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Optimism

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Optimism

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. – Robert Frost

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Optimism

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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Optimism

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