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“The world is a busy place filled with many busy businesses, both the Godly and the ungodly. It means before you go on to accept any activity or event that comes into the world, you must weigh its Values, examine the Virtues, listen to Views and then you give your Verdict. Satan is not wise; he is just crafty!”

“Disappointment sharpens the wit; and Renzo, who, in the straightforward path he had hitherto travelled, had not been required to subtilise much, now conceived a plan which would have done honour to a lawyer.”

Disappointment Cynicism Craftiness

Book:The Betrothed

Source: The Betrothed

“The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.”

“If the crafty fox wants to be even craftier, he must learn from humans a lesson of craftiness!”

Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Crafty Fox Craftiness Fox Quotes

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.”

Looks Political Plans Criticism Majority Revolutionary Etc Sincere Broads Resentment Economist Controversy Theoretical Disagreement Craftiness

Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.”

“To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.”

Author:Pierre Beaumarchais

“Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.”

Art Feelings Hiding Craftiness

Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.”

World Way Trying Running Courses Secret Musician Tricks Novelists Schemes Cunning Trickery Baudelaire Guile Olaf Outwitting Craftiness

Author:Daniel Handler

“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.”

People Ifs Would Be Language Imagination Quality Style New York Borders Greek Crossings Mixing Mercury Hermes Craftiness

Author:James Hillman

“The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.”

“I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.”

Writing Art Feelings Youth Sentences Endless Hiding Speculation Revision One Sentence Craftiness Deleting

Author:Jack Kerouac

“My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it not overcome me, my God. Let not flesh and blood conquer me. Let not the world and its brief glory deceive me, nor the devil trip me by his craftiness. Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, and constancy to persevere. Give me the soothing unction of Your spirit rather than all the consolations of the world, and in place of carnal love, infuse into me the love of Your name.”

Source: The Imitation of Christ