Talk:Cunning

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 * A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
 * Beecher


 * The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived, is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld


 * Cunning leads to knavery; it is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery; lying only makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
 * Jean de La Bruyère


 * In a great business there is nothing so fatal as cunning management.
 * Junius


 * The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning, he blunders and betrays.
 * Thomas Paine