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He should be very intelligent, patient, and undeceitful.
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He should be very intelligent, patient, and undeceitful.
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He should be very intelligent, patient, and undeceitful.
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He should be very intelligent, patient, and undeceitful.
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"Why not play it in two steps, the first more or less undeceitful: Have them destroy Woodcarver, then worry about taking them over?"
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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Tryer and Knower of good work; and remembering these, trust Pindar for the truth of his saying, that to the cunning workman -- (and let me solemnly enforce the words by adding -- that to him _only_,) knowledge comes undeceitful.
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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Then, after that, you can be as undeceitful as you want. "
Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch Helen Reimensnyder Martin 1903
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For to the cunning workman, greater knowledge comes, undeceitful. "
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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For to the cunning workman, greater knowledge comes, undeceitful. "
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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"All 'ôste stathmê dory nêion exithynei tektonos en palamêsi daêmonos, hos ra te pasês ed eidê sophiês, upothêmosynêsin Athênês,"] and the beautiful epithet of Persephone, "[Greek: daeira]," as the Tryer and Knower of good work; and remembering these, trust Pindar for the truth of his saying, that to the cunning workman -- (and let me solemnly enforce the words by adding -- that to him _only_,) knowledge comes undeceitful.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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