A Quote by Thomas Paine

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

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Thomas Paine
English - Activist
January 29, 1737 - June 8, 1809

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Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.

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Edwin Paxton Hood

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Edward Coke

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

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The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

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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.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Samuel Johnson

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

Benjamin Franklin

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