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WIST - Carlin, George | Interview by Marc Cooper, The Progressive (Jul 2001)

If you’ll scratch a cynic, you’ll find a disappointed idealist. A documented case of a phrase Carlin frequently used, though not original with him. Often quoted as "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."

WIST - Montesquieu, Baron de | Mes Pensées [My Thoughts] (1720-1755)

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate. Alternate translations: Study has been to me a sovereign remedy against the vexations of...