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bright side

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Noun1.bright side - a consoling aspect of a difficult situation; "every cloud has a silver lining"; "look on the bright side of it"
consolation, solace, solacement - the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment; "second place was no consolation to him"


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Becky Thatcher was gone to her Constantinople home to stay with her parents during vacation -- so there was no bright side to life anywhere.
Let us hear, then, what it is at its best estate--gaze on its bright side, if it has one; and then imagination may task her powers to add dark lines to the picture, as she travels southward to that (for the colored man) Valley of the Shadow of Death, where the Mississippi sweeps along.
Well, of course, if you can look on the bright side, pray do; it's a mercy if people haven't sensitive feelings, in this world.
 
 
 
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