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“Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.”

Edgar Allan Poe quotes (American short-story Writer, Editor, Poet and Critic, 1809-1849)

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“Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)

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“OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its enemy.

"Were the enemy's tactics offensive?" the king asked. "I should say so!" replied the unsuccessful general. "The blackguard wouldn't come out of his works!"”

Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)
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“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.”

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“We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.”

A. E. Housman quotes (English Scholar and Poet, 1859-1936)

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“BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market --the fine ones on top --have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.”

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“[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.”

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“We ain't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints”

Rudyard Kipling quotes (English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Nobel Prize(1907), 1865-1936)

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