Cleverness Quotes
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...
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My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation...
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Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to...
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He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.
There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...
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Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Y...
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I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he kne...
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...
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Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native ...
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...
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[On marriage and permanent attach

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.