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-- '''OscarWilde'''
->''We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,\\
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,\\
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.\\
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!''\\
-- '''RudyardKipling''', "Gentleman-Rankers"
A few clues as to which end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism you are -- or the characters think they are.
Contrast IdealismTropes.
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!!Tropes
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* AntiHero
** NinetiesAntiHero
* AtLeastIAdmitIt
* TheBarnum
* BeingGoodSucks
* BewareTheSuperman
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* CosmicHorrorStory
* CrapsackWorld
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy
* DeusAngstMachina
* EvilFeelsGood
* FeetOfClay
* GoodIsOldFashioned
* GrayingMorality
* GrumpyBear
* HumansAreBastards
* HumansAreMorons
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves
* ItGetsEasier
* JadeColoredGlasses
* KnightInSourArmor
* NewEraSpeech
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
* NotYourProblem
* PandoraPlea
* PretenderDiss
* SarcasticClapping
* SenselessSacrifice
* ShootTheDog
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids
* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids
* SourSupporter
* TrueArtIsAngsty
[[/index]]
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->''A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.''\\
-- '''OscarWilde'''
->''We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,\\
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,\\
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.\\
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!''\\
-- '''RudyardKipling''', "Gentleman-Rankers"
A few clues as to which end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism you are -- or the characters think they are.
Contrast IdealismTropes.
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!!Tropes
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* AntiHero
** NinetiesAntiHero
* AtLeastIAdmitIt
* TheBarnum
* BeingGoodSucks
* BewareTheSuperman
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* CosmicHorrorStory
* CrapsackWorld
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy
* DeusAngstMachina
* EvilFeelsGood
* FeetOfClay
* GoodIsOldFashioned
* GrayingMorality
* GrumpyBear
* HumansAreBastards
* HumansAreMorons
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves
* ItGetsEasier
* JadeColoredGlasses
* KnightInSourArmor
* NewEraSpeech
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
* NotYourProblem
* PandoraPlea
* PretenderDiss
* SarcasticClapping
* SenselessSacrifice
* ShootTheDog
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids
* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids
* SourSupporter
* TrueArtIsAngsty
[[/index]]
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-- '''OscarWilde'''
->''We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,\\
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,\\
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.\\
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!''\\
-- '''RudyardKipling''', "Gentleman-Rankers"
A few clues as to which end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism you are -- or the characters think they are.
Contrast IdealismTropes.
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!!Tropes
[[index]]
* AntiHero
** NinetiesAntiHero
* AtLeastIAdmitIt
* TheBarnum
* BeingGoodSucks
* BewareTheSuperman
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* CosmicHorrorStory
* CrapsackWorld
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy
* DeusAngstMachina
* EvilFeelsGood
* FeetOfClay
* GoodIsOldFashioned
* GrayingMorality
* GrumpyBear
* HumansAreBastards
* HumansAreMorons
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves
* ItGetsEasier
* JadeColoredGlasses
* KnightInSourArmor
* NewEraSpeech
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
* NotYourProblem
* PandoraPlea
* PretenderDiss
* SarcasticClapping
* SenselessSacrifice
* ShootTheDog
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids
* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids
* SourSupporter
* TrueArtIsAngsty
[[/index]]
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-- '''OscarWilde'''
->''We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,\\
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,\\
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.\\
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!''\\
-- '''RudyardKipling''', "Gentleman-Rankers"
A few clues as to which end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism you are -- or the characters think they are.
Contrast IdealismTropes.
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!!Tropes
[[index]]
* AntiHero
** NinetiesAntiHero
* AtLeastIAdmitIt
* TheBarnum
* BeingGoodSucks
* BewareTheSuperman
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* CosmicHorrorStory
* CrapsackWorld
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy
* DeusAngstMachina
* EvilFeelsGood
* FeetOfClay
* GoodIsOldFashioned
* GrayingMorality
* GrumpyBear
* HumansAreBastards
* HumansAreMorons
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves
* ItGetsEasier
* JadeColoredGlasses
* KnightInSourArmor
* NewEraSpeech
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
* NotYourProblem
* PandoraPlea
* PretenderDiss
* SarcasticClapping
* SenselessSacrifice
* ShootTheDog
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids
* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids
* SourSupporter
* TrueArtIsAngsty
[[/index]]
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-- '''Peggy Noonan''', '''in Good Housekeeping'''
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->''We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,\\
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,\\
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.\\
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!''\\
-- '''RudyardKipling''', "Gentleman-Rankers"
-- '''OscarWilde'''
->''We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,\\
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,\\
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.\\
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!''\\
-- '''RudyardKipling''', "Gentleman-Rankers"
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God help us, for we knew the worst too young!''\\
-- '''RudyardKipling''', "Gentleman-Rankers"
--''Peggy Noonan'', ''in Good Housekeeping''
