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Here are the quotes with the word cleverness in them. I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. — Julie Burchill An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. — Tom Brown, Jr.

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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

-Julie Burchill

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

-Raymond Chandler

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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

-Tom Brown, Jr.

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

-Stendhal

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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

-Lao Tzu

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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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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

-Thomas Huxley

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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

-Herman Hesse

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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

-Aleister Crowley

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Cleverness is not wisdom.

-Euripides

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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. — Julie Burchill
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. — Tom Brown, Jr.

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