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• [Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

  Aeschylus

  Clever, Fire, Honor

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• For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Passion, Holiday, Beer

  Alan Sillitoe (1987). “Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader”

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• It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

  Tom Robbins

  Ambitious, World, Bible Verse

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

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• A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Daughter, Kings

  William Butler Yeats (1814). “The Land of Heart's Desire”, p.12

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• The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

  John Tillotson

  Dark, Thinking, Danger

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• It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Long, Counterfeit

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• Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

  James Madison

  Education, Light, People

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

  Ron Fournier

  Zero, Dark, Three

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• horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Horse, Middle, Ends

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• I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

  Camille Claudel

  Character, Devil, Mood

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• Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.

  Joseph Hall

  Prayer, Heart, Temptation

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.226

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• The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned institutions ought to be the favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty . . . . What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of liberty and learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

  James Madison

  Education, Light, Kentucky

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• The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Angel, Godly

  The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) p. 12

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• How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Mean, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.42, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Children, Hate, Evil

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• Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

  John Brown

  Liars, Character, Honor

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• At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Fighting, Ideas

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• What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Mean, Rude

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• A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dog, Stupid, Boys

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• Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

  Francis Bacon

  Dark, Arrows, Coward

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.

  Sarah Dessen

  Beach, Writing, Motherhood

  "Goodreads YA Interview - Sarah Dessen". Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. May 2015.

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• Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Simple, Men

  Francis Bacon (1949). “The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon”

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• If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Dream, Taken, Simple

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.12, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Ambition, Happy Marriage, World

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Fortune

  Gustave Flaubert (2005). “Salammbo”, p.160, Penguin UK

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