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William J Durant
: One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld :
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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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Jack Vance :
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Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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Arnold Bennet :
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld :
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
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George Bernard Shaw :
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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