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Quote by Fannie Hurst
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever en

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

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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. – George Eliot

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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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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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