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A pessimist is...

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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Source: quoted in Frederick B. Wilcox, 'A Little Book of Aphorisms'
-- Don Marquis, (Jul 29 1878-1937), US journalist, poet, dramatist, humorist; He was a popular columnist of N.Y. Sun and Tribune, and wrote The Old Soak, 1921.


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