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Being an optimist has compensations. Indeed, it would need to have, for no virtue has ever landed anyone in more damnable scrapes than optimism has landed me. But before the crash comes it does help to keep one happy.
Next morning, after that nasty night, I was singing in my bath and full of wild hopes; the fact being that a new and consoling way of looking at things had suggested itself in the very act of shaving.