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• A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

  Voltaire

  Clever, Men, Fool

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• I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.181

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• It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Genius

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• There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

  Mark Lawrence

  Clever, Ignorance, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.105, Penguin

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• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Clever, Men

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• I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Clever, Husband, Men

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• So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

  Ivan Krylov

  Clever, Freedom, Men

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• Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

  Michael Scott

  Clever, Lying, Men

  Michael Scott (2010). “The Necromancer”, p.160, Random House

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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.

  Marcel Proust

  Clever, Being In Love, Men

  Marcel Proust “Swann’s Way”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Clever, Opportunity, Men

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• beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

  Lawrence Hill

  Clever, Men, Looks

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• Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

  H. G. Wells

  Clever, Mistake, Men

  H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.12, Everyman's Library

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• By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Clever, Believe, Mean

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

  Thomas J. Barratt

  Clever, Men, Design

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• I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

  Charles Darwin

  Clever, Men, Huxley

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.443, Broadview Press

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• Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

  R. H. Tawney

  Wise, Clever, Men

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• Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.

  Richard Digance

  Clever, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• I really like clever men who challenge you.

  E. L. James

  Clever, Men, Challenges

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

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• When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

  Eddie Vedder

  Stars, Clever, Fun

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• Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.

  Robertson Davies

  Baby, Clever, Men

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• I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

  Nathan Fillion

  Clever, Eye, Men

  "Comic Con 2011: CASTLE Interviews With Nathan Fillion, Seamus Dever, Jon Huertas, Molly Quinn and Executive Producer Laurie". Interview With Dave Trumbore, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and clever men falling to their knees in love of the lovely baby, the avatar of faultless love...!!!

  Lucinda Franks

  Dream, Baby, Stars

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• How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Stars, Clever

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• Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

  John Ruskin

  Clever, Work, Men

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.69, Parlor Press LLC

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• Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clever, Men, Rome

  "The Napoleon of Notting Hill". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.

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