Idealist: a cynic in the making. - Irving Layton

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Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

Irving Layton

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

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Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

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Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

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