Pessimism

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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little
A pessimist thinks that everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both
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