The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation-to put a better face on evil than it normally wears. (Theodore Dreiser)

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation-to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

Theodore Dreiser

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