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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
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Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
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Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
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