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Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Cunning is the mere ape of wisdom, and all hate its low tricks.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
Cunning is seeing a hundred yards ahead--wisdom, fifty miles in advance.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY, The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
Cunning is natural to mankind. It is the sense of our weakness, and an attempt to effect by concealment what we cannot do openly and by force.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
Cunning is a misplaced ambition of being perfect in others' deficiencies: it is the culture of low parts, and the proficiency of low minds.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
A cunning man overreaches no one half so much as himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
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