A Quote by Sappho
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
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Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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