• Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer 1842-1914
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. fortunately
2. especially
3. hereditary
4. contagious
5. wrong

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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. by : Ambrose Bierce

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