Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the …

Samuel Johnson
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Robert Carruthers (1852). The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., p.171
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Robert Carruthers (1852). The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., p.171

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