"The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war."
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"We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies."
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"Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
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"I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism."
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"American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past."
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"There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly."
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"People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus."
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"Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive."
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"Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight."
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"beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right"
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"Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever"
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"There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from."
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"The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so."
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"It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular"
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"A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value."
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"The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say."
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"People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourages them to display their conversational wares and admires the display."
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"The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics."
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"The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman."
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"When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are."
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