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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. – Jean Rostand

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. – Jean Rostand

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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. – Horace Walpole

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Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. – Lemony Snicket

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[M]an is a machine made expressly for sorrow; he has only five senses with which to receive pleasure, and suffering comes to him through the whole surface of his body…. The man who does not suffer is an ill-made machine, an imperfect creature… – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. – Ernest Hemingway

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