Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Quote by William Hazlitt
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
- A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
- An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
- There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
- Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
- Zeal will do more than knowledge.
- Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
- A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
- The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
- A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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