The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~Oscar Wilde
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~James Branch Cabell
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ~Sir Winston Churchill
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ~Paul Fussell
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. ~W. E. B. Du Bois
An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~Susan J. Bissonette
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. ~Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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