Intelligence is predatory, ...

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.