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• It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man- the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse- the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
  Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. -- Mrs. Jameso...
• Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
  -- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Speech, 19 April 1923...
• A conversation with you, Baldrick, and somehow, death loses its sting.. -- Edmund : Money
• There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring
  impatience and laziness. -- Franz Kafka...
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
• Let's go back to the '40s era when everybody was our gallant ally--except the people who are now our friends.
  -- Kenneth Horne...
• Is this real, Ben, or some strange and twisted dream? -- Jerry Horne, from Twin Peak
• I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid -- Bishop, the artificial person, from _Aliens_
• CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one.
  It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity....