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"Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification."

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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

— Carolyn Wells

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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

— Ambrose Bierce

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