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No, in Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde has Lord Darlingtons quip that a cynic is “a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”. The phrase is Wilde’s famous definition of a cynic. It means to be so materialistic that one is unable to gauge or recognize something’s true value.
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No, in Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde has Lord Darlingtons quip that a cynic is “a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”. The phrase is Wilde’s famous definition of a cynic. It means to be so materialistic that one is unable to gauge or recognize something’s true value.
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