"I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays."
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"A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage."
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"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."
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"From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid."
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"At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass"
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"She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."
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"My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever."
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"A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun."
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"A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue."
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"I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion."
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"Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best."
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"Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects."
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"Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be."
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"[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death."
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"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques."
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"Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined."
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"The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all."
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"When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us."
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"The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy"
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"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."
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