"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label."
— Optimism

January 1, 1970

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James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926), Book Four : Coth at Porutsa, Ch. XXVI : The Realist in Defeat