THE CYNIC'S DICTIONARY

by Dillon-Malone, Aubrey

First American Edition

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Book desription: Lincolnwood, IL, U.S.A.: N T C/Contemporary Publishing Company, 2000. H.L. Mencken defined a cynic as "someone who, when he smells the flowers, looks for a coffin." But more truly, a cynic is a disillusioned idealist, and his scathing wit a way of coping with the great divide between how things ought to be and how they actually are. The quotations contained herein range from the sublimely subversive to the downright idiotic, and make perfect ripostes with which to deflate pretentious windbags or infect the earnest and insulated among us with a refreshingly jaundiced view of the world. THE CYNIC'S DICTIONARY contains gems of epigrammatic cynicism from some of our greatest wits: Oscar Wilde, H.L. Mencken, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and many others. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.. ISBN: 0809225468. First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CYNICISM PSYCHOLOGY EMOTIONS.

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