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'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.' (Oscar Wilde) 'I tell you, we're in a blessed drain-pipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.' (H.G. Wells) Are optimists just reckless dreamers? Are pessimists miserable doom-mongers or just erring on the side of caution? Is the glass half empty or half full? Brilliantly compiled and beautifully written, this is a rich anthology of evidence from both sides of any argument. Covering everything from Africa to Beauty, Happiness to Patriotism to Walking, it is sop to any disposition; the perfect tool for squabbling families, a counterbalance for arguing couples and a mine of detail for the quarrelsome. The Optimist on the Afterlife: My heaven will be filled with wonderful young men and dukes. (Dame Barbara Cartland ) And the Pessimist: 'That’s what Hell will be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead. (Samuel Beckett)
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If you're taking a present to a glass half-full person who lives with a glass half-empty partner, you just need this one book. Clever idea ... Intelligently arranged and full of surprises
--The Lady, January 12, 2010
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Two books in one: the very first feel good/feel bad handbook for Pollyannas and Jeremiahs, providing both inspiration and antidote with quotations, proverbs, statistics and diary extracts.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 038561411X
- ISBN 13 9780385614115
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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