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The Optimist's/Pessimist's Handbook: A Companion To Hope And Despair

'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.' (Oscar Wilde)
'I tell you, we're in a blessed drain-pipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.' (H.G. Wells)

Are optimists just reckless dreamers? Are pessimists


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' We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.' (Oscar Wilde)
'I tell you, we're in a blessed drain-pipe, & we've got to crawl along it till we die.' (H.G. Wells)

Are optimists just reckless dreamers? Are pessimists miserable doom-mongers or just erring on the side of caution? Is the glass half empty or half full?
Brilliantly compiled & beautifully written, this is a rich anthology of evidence from both sides of any argument. Covering everything from Africa to Beauty, Happiness to Patriotism to Walking, it is sop to any disposition; the perfect tool for squabbling families, a counterbalance for arguing couples & a mine of detail for the quarrelsome.

The Optimist on the Afterlife: My heaven will be filled with wonderful young men & dukes. (Dame Barbara Cartland )
And the Pessimist: ' That

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