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by Gilbert K. Chesterton    ( comments )

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that more

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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by Euripides    ( comments )

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Cleverness is not wisdom.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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by Amiel    ( comments )

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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

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by Israel Zangwill    ( comments )

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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire more

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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by Thomas Carlyle    ( comments )

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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

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by George Bernard Shaw    ( comments )

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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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by Oscar Wilde    ( comments )

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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by Plato    ( comments )

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness more

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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by Israel Zangwill    ( comments )

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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire more

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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by Francois De La Rochefoucauld    ( comments )

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It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

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