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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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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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Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

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Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. ↗

— Tony Randall

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One always 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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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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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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To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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

— James Lovelock

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