"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
— Cynicism

January 1, 1970

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Oscar Wilde, in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892); often paraphrased : "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."