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La Rochefoucauld 125: The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens tha...
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The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another. ["With that low cunning which in fools supplies, And amply, too, the place of being wise." Churchill, Rosciad, 117.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_125
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