#clever

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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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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In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me. ↗

— John Mayer

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And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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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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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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