"I am a little world made cunningly." — John Donne

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• If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass… — John Bertram Phillips
• The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before... — Frederic Morton
• There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly… — Charles Baudelaire
• A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words… — Oliver Herford
• Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know… — Anthony Burgess
• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men… — Thomas Carlyle
• Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface… — Henry David Thoreau
• High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will… — Thomas Carlyle
• It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they… — Christopher Hitchens
• and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have… — George Eliot
• Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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