Cynicism
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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Politicians are inured to cynicism.They are positively cynical about cynicism.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
complaints, Cynicism, Protest, Revolution
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Never turn down a front row seat for human folly.
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There is nothing quite so tragic as young cynic, because it means that person as gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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Two such wonderful phrases ‘I understand perfectly’ and ‘That is a lie’ -a precis of life, aren’t they?
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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They’re not a cynical people, the Americans. They want you to do quite well, whereas in Britain they just want you to fall flat on your face.