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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for no

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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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice. – Mason Cooley

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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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Im a hopeful cynic. – Tracy Chapman

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