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“I have always been much cleverer in retrospect.”

— Jaida Jones

“I feel like someone in a terribly sophisticated play. The funny part is, I'm not sophisticated. I'm not anything. I'm just me.”

— J.D. Salinger

“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.”

— Oscar Wilde

“O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.”

— A Gentleman

“We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.”

— Andrew Marr

“His brow furrowed in a way that suggested he was calculating my likely ability to be that naive.”

— Kate Elliott

“Was it possible, on some level, he knew we'd once had”

— Stacy Claflin

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

“I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.”

— Lois Lowry

“We think we’re so clever. And yet we’re always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.”

— Julie Anne Long

“There is something out there, he'd said. Something cunning.”

— Meagan Spooner