Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have … - Charles Caleb Colton

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I like to be honest, and after all these years I can't be bothered being politically correct.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

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