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• CYNIC: Experienced.
• A cynic is only a frustrated optimist.
• A cynic's work is never done
• Small children, given a playground, a meadow or a stretch of street, will at once begin to create a sport based on the relationships of trees, posts, benches or whatever.
  When the code is complete and sides chosen, woe to the child who makes the aberrant move in the game....
• A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist.
• I don't want to be a cynic, but it's hard...
• I guess a cynic smells different.
• A STOIC brings the baby; a CYNIC is where you wash it.
• I am looking for a honest man. -- Diogenes the Cynic