"A man who knows the world will not……" — Charles Caleb Colton

More Adroit Quotes

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• Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion. — Richard Armour
• There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. — William Hazlitt
• There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be… — Martin Luther
• If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a… — Calvin Coolidge
• The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software… — Nathan Myhrvold
• Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned… — Charles Caleb Colton
• The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no… — Peter Kropotkin
• Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such… — Chuck Klosterman
• To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be… — Aleister Crowley
• Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with… — Marquis de Sade

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