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• No matter how bad it is, there's always worse.
• Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
• The common folk have many sayings, all about it being darkest before the dawn and clouds with silver linings and suchlike.
  We in the magical trade like to express our opinions of these matters somewhat differently....
• Harry constantly irritated his friends with his eternal optimism.
  No matter how bad the situation, he would always say, "Well, it could have been worse....
• That's the remarkable thing about life. No matter how bad it gets it can always get worse.
  -- Calvi...
• Five rules for eternal misery: 1) Always try to exhort others to look upon you favorably.
  2) Make lots of assumptions about situations and be sure to treat these assumptions as though they are reality....
• People who hate their work are slaves, no matter how much they make.
• There will always be mimes and ventriloquists to make us miserable.
• The simple life is your key. It will make you miserable.