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I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities. They are now aware of the particular community making a living by spreading the foolishness. People have begun to hate god, religion, caste, mythologies (puranas) and so on..
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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I am a little world made cunningly Of elements and an angelic sprite.

john donne

— c.1610-1615  Holy Sonnets, no.15.

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No man ever truly believed, who was not first made sensible of unbelief. True conviction of sin how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.


— Horace Bushnell, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 164.

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Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.


— Verse inscribed in the Whispering Gallery of Gloucester Cathedral.

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I owe my complete restoration to a discovery I made while being treated at that particular very expensive sanatorium . I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists: cunningly leading them on;...


— Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita Penguin UK, 27 July 2012, p. 103

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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

thomas carlyle

— Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter VIII

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. . . the mysteries , on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind , are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance , the mother of credulity.


— Edward Clodd in: The Wit and Blasphemy of Atheists: 500 Greatest Quips and Quotes from Freethinkers, Non-Believers and the Happily Damned, Ulysses Press, 1 March 2011, p.27

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If we take away this foundation, that man is by nature foolish and sinful, fallen short of the glorious image of God, the Christian system falls at once; nor will it deserve as honorable an appellation as that of a cunningly devised fable.


— John Wesley, p. 190. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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I made a posy while the day ran by; Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band. But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, * And wither'd in my hand.

George Herbert

— George Herbert, The Temple, Life.

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I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite.

john donne

— No. 5, line 1.

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