"He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment."
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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."
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"I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools."
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"She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited."
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"Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right."
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"Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession."
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"Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
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"It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon."
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"I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence."
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"A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance."
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"Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook."
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"There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at."
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"Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox."
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"We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart."
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"But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al’s smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it."
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"The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception."
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"Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made."
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"If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God."
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"I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present."
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