A cynic is just a man who ...

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.
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 James Gould Cozzens

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Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.
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The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
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 James Gould Cozzens