• Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

  Laurence Sterne
  British author 1713-1768
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. positiveness
2. lessens
3. triumph
4. defeat
5. wrong
6. shame

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Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. by : Laurence Sterne

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