 | "The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
- Havelock Ellis
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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. |
| "The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
- Oscar Wilde
, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891. |
| "I find nothing more depressing than optimism."
- Paul Fussell
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| "For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
- Sir Winston Churchill
, speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954. |
| "An optimist is the human personification of spring."
- Susan J. Bissonette
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