The cynic and the realist both see people and things for how they are, but the cynic still expects them to conform to an idea of how they should be and is embittered because they don't. (Of course, the person who continually believes the worst of people -- especially when this is in no way justified -- is quite another species than mere cynic [who at least was expecting people to be better than they are] : no, one must search the clinical lexicon for the most suitable designation for this malignant type of person.)

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