Cunning Quotes
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The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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However political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
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A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
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Nights are like the bottom of somewhere, a kind of seabed. As for the days, they have a cunning of their own.
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.
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As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.
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I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
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I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
