“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

— George Will

The Leveling Wind: politics, the culture, and other news, 1990-1994 (c. 1994), Will, Viking; as cited in Quotable Quotes (1997), Editors of Reader’s Digest, Penguin : ISBN 1606525956
1990s

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