Irving Caesar citations

“Picture you upon my knee,
Just tea for two and two for tea”

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"Tea For Two" (1925).

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”

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This is actually James Branch Cabell from The Silver Stallion (1926)
Misattributed

“Sometimes I'm happy
sometimes I'm blue
my disposition
depends on you.”

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"Sometimes I'm Happy".

“Swanee!
How I love you, how I love you,
My dear ol' Swanee!
I'd give the world to be
Among the folks in
D-I-X-I-E”

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"Swanee" (1919).