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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Chicago l. 10 (1916) -
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: ''You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.''
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
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Nothing doch more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Essays (1625) Of cunning -
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception.
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