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Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
                -- Addison Mizner and Oliver Herford, "The Entirely
                New Cynic's Calendar", 1905
Cynic, n.:
        A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not
        as they ought to be.  Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking
        out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Cynic, n.:
        Experienced.
Cynic, n.:
        One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced eye.
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
                -- Edgar A. Shoaff
I am looking for a honest man.
                -- Diogenes the Cynic
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