"Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers." George Meredith (1828-1909), British author. Clara Middleton, quoting Mr. Whitford, in The Egoist, ch. 7 (1879).
Clara adds: "It seems to me that cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves." |
"As the clouds the clouds chase;
And we go,
And we drop like the fruits of the tree,
Even we,
Even so." George Meredith (1828-1909), British poet. Dirge in Woods (l. 11-15). . .
The Poems of George Meredith. Vol. 1. Phyllis B. Bartlett (1978) Yale University Press 1. |
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