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Updated: May 14, 2025
As a rule, I do go about equipped with ropes and hooks and things to rescue trespassing hydroaviators, but " she regarded him thoughtfully. "Do you like to float about and smoke?" The sun-browned skin of the young aviator reddened a trifle, but his eyes laughed. "I'm an incurable optimist," he lightly countered, "or I wouldn't have tried to fly over a private lake in a borrowed aeroplane."
Smith was an optimist. Whatever cataclysm might occur, he never doubted for a moment that he would be comfortably on the summit of the debris when all was over. He amazed Betty with his stories of his reportorial adventures.
The hours had seemed fuller and longer, sleep better earned wonderful, the things one could do without when put to it! He turned the car into the high road, driving dreamily for he was in plenty of time. The war was going pretty well now; he was no fool optimist, but now that conscription was in force, one might reasonably hope for its end within a year.
The difficult generation, at once stiff-backed and slippery, with which he had to do in this endeavor, reduced even so buoyant an optimist to despair, and after wasting some valuable weeks in trying to work the artists himself, he determined to get an artist to work them. But what artist?
Optimist to the last ditch, she knew that somehow provision would be made. She, too, had had her troubles, for twice she had been operated on at Indian Harbor for cancer." Uncle Tom must have suffered severely during all those months that he had lived with his broken ribs uncared for. Now Dr. Grenfell, without loss of time, strapped them up good and tight. Mrs.
"I'll have a lot of those ten cents each," Pee-wee announced. "Do you like clam chowder?" he called, raising his voice to cover the increasing distance. "Don't you make us hungry," one called back. "Good luck to you, you'll make it a go all right." "I'm lucky, I always have good luck," the small optimist screamed at the top of his voice. "Do you like peanut taffy?
"You are an optimist, Prince," said Hafner, "and whatsoever our friend Dorsenne here present may claim, it is necessary to be optimistic." "You are attacking him again, father," interrupted Fanny, in a tone of respectful reproach.
In fine, she was an optimist. "It's no good getting angry.... Everything settles itself so long as your health is good...." That was clearly to Christophe's way of thinking. They did not need much conversation to discover that they belonged to the same family. Every now and then they would exchange a good-humored smile, while the others were haranguing and shouting.
The optimist, or the one who thinks that everything is good in the world, and who repeats to us incessantly that we live in the best world possible, if he were consistent, ought never to pray; still less should he expect another world where men will be happier. Can there be a better world than the best possible of all worlds?
I am still optimist enough to know that life will hold many experiences which will enrich it, but in my secret heart I cherish the conviction that this year will always stand out as a keynote, and a touchstone by which to judge those which succeed it.
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