#shrewd

Kids are so shrewd. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#shrewd

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

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Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful. ↗

— Rex Stout

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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

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