“Wisdom also distributes in this reflected shadow all things equal in measure, so that one thing should not exceed another in weight, nor should one thing be able to move another contrary to its nature. For she overcomes and restrains every wicked plot of the devil because she existed before all evils began and after…
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The Value of Shrewdness according to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his story “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” successfully put forth a moral meaning for the term ‘shrewdness.’ Hawthorne takes the literal meaning – the ability to judge very well and make good decisions- and mixes it so well with his protagonist that we can take out a meaning for our own. Although the story, at…
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