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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.~ George Bernard Shaw
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.~ Thomas Carlyle
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.~ G.K. Chesterton
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Cleverness is not wisdom.~ Euripides
Cleverness is not wisdom.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.~ Israel Zangwill
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.~ Arnold Bennett
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
