"Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
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“Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.”
“There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.”
“I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.”
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“The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.”
“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”
“We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.”