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• You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.

  Leonard Maltin

  Clever, Want, Helping

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• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Clever, Literature, Reason

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.70

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• And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

  "Critiques and Addresses".

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• A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mistake, Moments, Blunders

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• All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

  Stendhal

  Atheist, Fear, Religion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

  John Sayles

  Giving, Good Movie, Roger

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• The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Work, Height, Able

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• How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Mean, Hypocrisy

  "The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings".

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• Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

  Albert Einstein

  Humorous, Men, Enemy

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Marriage, Money

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.195, Transaction Publishers

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• LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, War, Grief

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• I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Sick, Nuisance

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.680, Wordsworth Editions

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• When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

  Laozi

  Hypocrisy

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.27, Chinese University Press

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• The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Kindness, Hate

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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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.

  Edward Hoagland

  Country, Cities, People

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• More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Needs, Dictator

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Loyalty, Men, Thinking

  Sir Arthur Helps, John W. Ferguson, William T. Fenton, Francis Bacon, Elbert Hubbard (1913). “The Transaction of Business”

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• Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

  Randolph Bourne

  Art, War, Mean

  "Diplomacy is a Disguised War: Obama’s Diplomatic 'Sleight-of-hand'" by Peter Fay, www.globalresearch.ca. March 22, 2011.

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• Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.

  Sun Tzu

  Warrior, Winning, Bravery

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, People, Embarrassed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.272, Modern Library

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• Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

  Khalil Gibran

  Tears, Genius, Irritated

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• Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Yankees, Unions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.378, Harvard University Press

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• So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

  Michael Parkinson

  Clever, Smart, Boys

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• The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, Self, Males

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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