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"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."
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"If you believe the world is conspiring against you it will just do that, you will help on by your pessimism action to prove you are right."
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"Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
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"I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind."
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"Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations."
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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
Progress
"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
Friendship
"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
Motivation
"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
Language
"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good."
Morality
"In heaven an angel is no one in particular."
Spiritual
"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."
Wisdom
"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
Sex
"The risks of liberty we must let everyone take, but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter."
Freedom
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