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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, inc

Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. – Ambrose Bierce

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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce

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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. – James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum. – Havelock Ellis

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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. – Ring Lardner

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