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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Jacques Barzun
Thinking, Cheerful, Students
"Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar". Columbia Today, January 2006.
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.