"Now, I happen to be an optimist."
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"Now, I happen to be an optimist."
"I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself."
"Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive."
"Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists"
"I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much."
"Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future."