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cynic [sin-ik] Noun a person who believes that people always act selfishly [Greek kuōn dog] Cynic Noun a member of an ancient Greek philosophical school that had contempt for worldly things Cynicism n
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So the Cynic turned out of the road to let the Optimist roll by in his gold carriage. Though Thackeray is no cynic he is a satirist as much as Pope or Dryden, but the most kindly satirist who ever wrote. As the Cynic spoke, several of the party were startled by a gleam of red splendor, that showed the huge shapes of the surrounding mountains and the rock-bestrewn bed of the turbulent river with an illumination unlike that of their fire on the trunks and black boughs of the forest trees. |
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