Quote by Ambrose Bierce
An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. -

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – Ambrose Bierce

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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde

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The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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An optimist is the human personification of spring. – Susan J. Bissonette

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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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