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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Cunning is strength withheld.
Cunning is strength withheld.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Cunning men deal in generalizations.
Cunning men deal in generalizations.
