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It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are
accountable. -Moliere

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -
all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. -Edward
Everett Hale

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to
prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and
are right. -H.L. Mencken

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the
pessimist fears this is true. -James Branch Cabell

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Many thanks

[zaiah.livejournal.com]

Your last qoute.. on optimism - has long been made one of my own koans.. I never stumbled across who had said it though. Seems I now have a biographical search to conduct. MANY thanks!

My other personal favorite? "A voice came to me and said Smile - things could be worse. So for a while I smiled and was happy. Then things got worse."