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

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

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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human beings functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. – Havelock Ellis

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Family
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. – Havelock Ellis

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A man who calls bullshit fertilizer. – Frank Dane

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

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Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted. – Drew Deyoung

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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. – George F. Will, The Leveling Wind

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. – Lewis Mumford

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Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course. – Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

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