Professional priorities examined

摘要

In Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) Lord Darlington comments that "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."And in a more savage mood,Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary,1911) defines a cynic as "A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are,not as they ought to be."