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Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- its b

Cynicism is cheap — you can buy it at any Monoprix store — its built into all poor-quality goods. – Graham Greene

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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. – Graham Greene

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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene

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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. – Fannie Hurst

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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

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Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Dont bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Dont waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. – George Eliot

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