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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
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George Bernard Shaw

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

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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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Walter Winchell

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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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Elbert Hubbard

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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Oscar Wilde

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I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.
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Source Unknown

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I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.
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Paul Harvey

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If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.
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Robert Lowell

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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
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Damien Cannon

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In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
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Daniel Readon

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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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Desiderius Erasmus

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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Clare Boothe Luce

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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Ian Mcewan

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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
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Bill Clinton

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Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
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George F. Will

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
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Mark Twain

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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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Elias Canetti

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There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.
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Mark Twain

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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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John Kenneth Galbraith

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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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Samuel Goldwyn

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