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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
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If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots 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 clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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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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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
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Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852) -
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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For the task assigned them
Men aren't smart enough or sly
Any rogue can blind them
With a clever lie.The Threepenny Opera Polly Peachum, in The Song of the Futility of All
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