“Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong”
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“Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong”
“When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion”
“Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white”
“Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ”
“Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.”
“Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect”
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for”
“Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be”
“Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others”
“Last words are for fools who haven't said enough”
“Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another”
“There is nothing so bad that someone won't praise it, or so good that someone won't complain”
“ If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking”
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“There's no accounting for taste ”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholde”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them”
“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better”