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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
If that was quoted from memory, that's pretty good, RSE!
The exact quote is:
"CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision."
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
Karma to you for mentioning that book!
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It's available on project gutenberg US. Ambrose Bierce disappeared in 1913. That made him legally dead in 1920...
I prefer my quoted rephrasing better.....(I don't view seeing reality as it is as - faulty...)