If England had a system of pensions like ours, we should see that "all that was left of the Noble Six Hundred" was six thousand pensioners.

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PESSIMISM

A pessimist is a man who lives with an optimist.—Francis Wilson.


How happy are the Pessimists!

A bliss without alloy

Is theirs when they have proved to us

There's no such thing as joy!

Harold Susman.