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Then the more 'tis to be feared, said Pantagruel; for subtlety suspected, subtlety foreseen, subtlety found out, loses the essence and very name of subtlety, and only gains that of blockishness.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony