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Home Art Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.

Polly, August 14, 2013

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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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