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Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Euripides
Cleverness is not wisdom.

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

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

Israel Zangwill
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

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

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