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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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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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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
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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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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
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It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.
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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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