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| By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. -- Mark Twain | |
| Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Publilius Syrus | |
| Optimism, n.: The belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, good, bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those accustomed to falling into adversity, and most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof -- an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but not contagious. | |
| However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan | |
| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln | |
