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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

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I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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

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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

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What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

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It is better to play than do nothing.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

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Do I dare disturb the universe?

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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

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