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Walking the tightrope between cynicism and sincerity

Mar 16, 2016 | Category: Featured

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton I wrote recently about unscrupulous optimism. Mostly this seems to have been understood as a warning against...

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