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Desperate optimists

Posted by michael January 31, 2008 under Incisive Quotes

“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.”

– G.K. Chesterton, Introduction to The Defendant

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