James Branch Cabell

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James Branch Cabell wrote The Silver Stallion. Wikiquote identifies his novel as the source behind the optimist-and-pessimist paradox later attributed to Oppenheimer.

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“The Optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, the Pessimist fears it is true”

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