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Pangloss

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Noun1.Pangloss - an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire
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This world was not then so good as Doctor Pangloss believed it, neither was it so wicked as Dantes thought it, since this man, who had nothing to expect from his comrade but the inheritance of his share of the prize-money, manifested so much sorrow when he saw him fall.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Pangloss for himself; and very earnestly, but very unsuccessfully, trying to persuade the others that there were some fine tragic parts in the rest of the dramatis personae.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
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