Cunning Quote by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.” quote by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke — Download Open image

“It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.”

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Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

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Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

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If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

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Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

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