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H L Mencken
: A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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William Wordsworth :
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The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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Sigmund Freud :
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
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Tracy Chapman :
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I'm a hopeful cynic.
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George Meredith :
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
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James Clerk Maxwell :
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Cynics are made, not born.
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Herbert Beerbohm Tree :
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Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
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H G Wells :
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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