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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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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freemans power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. – Ambrose Bierce

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Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. – Ambrose Bierce

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A man who calls bullshit fertilizer. – Frank Dane

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My sun sets to rise again. – Robert Browning

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

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