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“For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 97594854b41e0c048cc0513539cd9a60a88a3bb929942b288dafb04ef0e43330
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“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own; He who, secure within,…”
John Dryden
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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