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Cynicism

  • A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde
  • A cynic isw just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. — James Gould Cozzens
  • The habit of thinking ill of everything and everyone is tiresome to ourselves and to all around us. — Pope John XXIII
  • A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. — Edgar Shoaff
  • By letting themselves be cynical, unhappy people aggravate their melancholy. They are like a dog which tears at its wounded paw so as to hurr the pain. — Hubert Van Zeller
  • Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. — Lillian Hellman
  • The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. — George Bernard Shaw
  • The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. — John Keats

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