“Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.”
Have a Great Day (1986), p. 14
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“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
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“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
The earliest attributions of this remark to anyone are in 1941, to Mortimer Adler, in How To Read A Book (1940), although this actually a paraphrased shortening of a statement in his preface: Reading — as explained (and defended) in this book — is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
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“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
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