"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom."
— Bernard DeVoto

January 1, 1970

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"Mark Twain: The Ink of History", Address at the University of Missouri (December, 1935). Reported in Bartlett's, 15th ed. (Little, Brown and Co., 1980), p. 837