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    “Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    ““Mother” is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, “Why isn’t life turning out the way we want it?””
    —Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)