A clever, pliant, winning mind knows how to avoid and overcome difficu… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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A clever, pliant, winning mind knows how to avoid and overcome difficulties. Bending easily to what it wants, it understands the inclination and temper it is dealing with, and by managing their interests it advances and establishes its own.
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