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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Cleverness

WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

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Cleverness is not wisdom.

Cleverness

PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

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Henri Frédéric Amiel

WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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George Bernard Shaw

WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

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François de La Rochefoucauld

WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

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

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NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

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François de La Rochefoucauld

WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

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