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"The weak in courage is strong in cunning." »William Blake
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"Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise." »Francis Bacon
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"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning." »A. E. Housman
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"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around." »Georges Bernanos
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"He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed." »Metastasio
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"The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends." »Charles de Gaulle
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"Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning." »Samuel Johnson
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"In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him." »Martin Terman
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"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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