[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.