Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when t

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

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

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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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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. – Voltaire

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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. – Nina Simone

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