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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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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. – Graham Greene

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Innocence
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Graham Greene
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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Corruption
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Graham Greene
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Cynicism
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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasnt any Santa Claus, and hes still upset. – James G. Cozzens

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Cynicism

It is difficult not to write satire. – Juvenal

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Cynicism

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. – Frank Moore Colby

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Cynicism

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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Cynicism

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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams

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If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace… — treasure them. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Carpe Diem

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. – Jean Paul

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Forgiveness

But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. – William Butler Yeats

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Dreams