The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's …

Mark Twain
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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way. ✨ Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with Reflections on religion now in book form for the first time, Doubleday Books
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