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Pessimism

A pessimist is a man who lives with an optimist. Francis Wilson.

How happy are the Pessimists!

A bliss without alloy Is theirs when they have proved to us There's no such thing as joy! -Harold Susman.

A pessimist is one who, of two evils, chooses them both. "I had a mighty queer surprise this morning," remarked a local stock broker. "I put on my last summer's thin suit on account of this extraordinary hot weather, and in one of the trousers pockets I found a big roll of bills which I had entirely forgotten." "Were any of them receipted?" asked a pessimist.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.-Froude.

With earth's first clay they did the last man knead, And there of the last harvest sowed the seed:

And the first morning of creation wrote What the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

Yesterday this day's madness did prepare; Tomorrow's silence, triumph, or despair.

Drink! For you know not whence you came, nor why; Drink! For you know not why you go, nor where. -Omar Khayyam.