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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Indeed, I think it must be more agreeable, must have a more real savor, than optimism—from the way in which pessimists abandon themselves to it.
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You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments
producing a confused agreeable mass
of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
May 27, 1867
Died:
March 27, 1931
(aged 63)
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