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• Clever men are good, but they are not the best. — Thomas Carlyle
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• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. — Gautama Buddha
• Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it. — Unknown Author
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• I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin
• Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney
• Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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• Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin
• No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. — Israel Zangwill
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