#cunning

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. ↗

— John Tillotson

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I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning. ↗

— Renee Vivien

#being #bit #cunning #i #i am

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#art #bay #care #cunning #dart

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same. ↗

— Henry Winkler

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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. ↗

— Mikhail Lermontov

#cunning #else #glory #happy #happy people

We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. ↗

— Cynthia Ozick

#choose #cunning #never #obvious #saying

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself. ↗

— Balthasar Gracian

#deceit #truth #art

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. ↗

— Merce Cunningham

#dance #inspirational #merce-cunningham #inspirational