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“It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.”
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- Source:
- Of Cunning.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7187ac17b0b11466a08a895c50825357ac612b34eb81157e43fcb641b7beb6be
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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