#clever

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. ↗

— Titus Livius

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An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. ↗

— James Lovelock

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Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. ↗

— John Major

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Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked. ↗

— Kate Moss

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If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. ↗

— Richard Perle

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. ↗

— Plato

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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. ↗

— Plato

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I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

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

— Oscar Wilde

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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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