The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell-”Abandon hope, ye who enter here.”. (John Lancaster Spalding)

The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell-”Abandon hope, ye who enter here.”.

John Lancaster Spalding

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