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

    Ambrose Bierce: Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
    Ambrose Bierce
    Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 63
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