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Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing. ↗

— Les Baxter

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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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There is no bore like a clever bore. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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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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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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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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