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"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."

"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."

"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."

"Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty."

"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."

"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."

"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
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"I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued."

"Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life."

"It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't."
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