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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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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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It is difficult not to write satire. – Juvenal

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. – H. L. Mencken

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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. – George Eliot

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